“You’ve heard the expression ‘all politics is local,’ and I would say that on the flip side of that, all conflict is global,” said Colin Clarke, a senior researcher at the Soufan Center who has studied ISIS and co-wrote a report last year on transnational white supremacist activity. “It’s weird because you wouldn’t think, on the face of it, that white supremacists would seek to emulate jihadis. But there’s actually a strange affinity where they admire folks like bin Laden and al-Qaida for what they’ve been able to achieve.”