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U.S. has become the exemplar of far-right extremism and terrorism, says Julian Zelizer .
He says the United States' exportation of ideas is radicalizing men and women across the globe.
Zelizer: Far-right violence today is increasingly fueled by a deadly combination of ideology and strategy imported from the US .
Frida Ghitis: The United States has become the exemplar of far-right extremism in the world.
She says the term “accelerationism’s” first surfaced as a concept for a white supremacist revolution in the 1980s-era newsletter Siege, which was written by James Mason , a dedicated acolyte of William Luther Pierce , an even more influential white supremacist ideologue.
Ghitis says the terrorist strategy known as accelerationism is an effort to foment cataclysmic violent chaos as a means to seize power.
Frida Ghitis: U.S. has become exporters of right-wing extremism, damaging one of our best weapons in securing our international standing—our example.
Ghitis says the United States ’ stature as a pillar and exemplar of democracy had been overtaken by the Trump administration’s election denialism playbook.
Russia has supported neo-Nazi groups such as the Russian Imperial Movement , she says, and Iran has taken steps to encourage far-right terrorism in the West .
The State Department should direct the State Department to designate foreign white supremacist groups as foreign terrorist groups.
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