How to Dismantle Far-Left Extremist Networks

[mountaineer]

How to Dismantle Far-Left Extremist Networks
A roadmap for the Trump Administration.
Kyle Shideler
Sept. 17, 2025
The American Mind/Claremont Institute

There is a growing urgency within the Trump Administration to take on what the president has called “the radical left lunatics” following the assassination of conservative icon Charlie Kirk. But despite much of the talk from the Right, including even from the administration itself, there is no easy way to dismantle the far-left’s networks. Defeating the forces arrayed against the American republic will require a detailed understanding of the enemy and a systematic plan to break up their networks, utilizing all methods of national power.

Defining Terms

The biggest initial problem the Trump Administration faces in confronting the radical Left is a refusal by the national security, federal law enforcement, and intelligence apparatuses to even recognize whom the president has identified as a threat. ...

The president must direct the creation of the Far-Left Violent Extremist category and implement its immediate use across all departments and agencies. While the actual name is up for debate, it must explicitly include “anti-fascist” (Antifa), anarchist, autonomous Marxist, socialist, Marxist-Leninist, Maoist, and Communist extremists, and ensure that these distinctions are accurately and correctly defined.

Such an approach is not radical—in fact it is used by American allies abroad.  ...

Because these movements are made up of multiple entities that utilize different tactics and are organized in diverse ways, there is no silver bullet for defeating the Far-Left Extremist movement. Only a whole-of-government—and ultimately a whole-of-society—approach will be successful. Anyone who insists there is a single, easy method for stopping this threat is at best ill-informed.

Department of Justice

The DOJ would presumably serve as the lead agency in any effort. ...

Lengthy and detailed article by Kyle Shideler, director and senior analyst for homeland security and counterterrorism at the Center for Security Policy.

[Bigun]

 

[DefiantMassRINO]

Follow the money.

This is an opportunity for real journalists to out these networks and those that fund them.

I'm sure much of the money is being laundered via "Foundations", "Societies", "Think Tanks", "Institutes", and many other non-profit entities.  It makes it easy to hide foreign money and disguise foreign influence campaigns.

[Fishrrman]

"How to Dismantle Far-Left Extremist Networks..."

Show up at places like the SPLC with tanks.
Give them 15 minutes to vacate the building.
And then...