Faith Lazar details the history of the U.S. Right’s relationship to the FBI and the security state, from the early days of the Red Scare and pro-government conservatives to the anti-state militias that arose in the aftermath of Waco.
Law Enforcement & Militias
Policing serves to reproduce White, middle-class, cis-heteropatriarchal norms, but Generically used to describe factions of right-wing politics that are outside of and often critical of traditional conservatism. Learn more policing in the U.S. describes the sheriffs, militias, border patrol, ICE agents, National Guard, and other types of law enforcement who publicly support and enact the values of A social movement based on a belief in biologically determined racial hierarchies, often with the ultimate goal of establishing an all-White nation state. Learn more — including targeting immigrants and refugees; Black, Indigenous, brown, and Latinx people; trans, non-binary, and gender non-conforming people; and disabled people.
