As of 2001, around 45 terror attacks have been perpetrated by far-right individuals in the United States, killing 133 people according to wikipedia. Some of the entries classified as ‘terror attacks’ are dubious, like the charlottesville ramming, otherwise the list is fairly exhaustive. Notable attacks perpetrated for right wing political motivations include:
Has anyone tried an accounting of whether the McVeigh bombing did in fact backfire around the time when it happened? As far as I remember it was intended as revenge for Waco, which itself occurred in an atmosphere of heavy federal active measures against right wing militias. I know a few years ago I read a somewhat compelling case that these were at least temporarily pulled back afterwards; but I never had the time to verify it and I have no memory of where I found it.
The impression I got from looking at the case is that the feds were already embarassed by what happened at Waco and went softer on the far-right/militia people afterwards. Some people blame this for the bombing itself.
Has anyone tried an accounting of whether the McVeigh bombing did in fact backfire around the time when it happened? As far as I remember it was intended as revenge for Waco, which itself occurred in an atmosphere of heavy federal active measures against right wing militias. I know a few years ago I read a somewhat compelling case that these were at least temporarily pulled back afterwards; but I never had the time to verify it and I have no memory of where I found it.
The impression I got from looking at the case is that the feds were already embarassed by what happened at Waco and went softer on the far-right/militia people afterwards. Some people blame this for the bombing itself.
Consider applying the same logic to the 1960's left wing violence it see how wrong it is.
Left wing violence had a supportive establishment to back it. The right has no such luck.