The biggest threat right-wing groups pose is not to the security of Western nations but to their character.

Right-wing extremists are thus given ample breathing room to spread their ideology and to plan and carry out their attacks, which helps explain both the higher relative lethality of right-wing attacks and the significantly lower rate of indictment for their perpetrators. Hate groups and separatists have been arming themselves and forming militias (PDF) over the last decade, some with the express purpose of waging war against the government or minorities. Their methods are growing more brazen and extreme. Their ideologies are becoming progressively more pervasive, and they are increasingly collaborating and communicating with analogous white nationalists movements around the world — reinforcing their beliefs and heightening the perceived stakes of their struggle.

Containing the threat