Far-right extremism in the US is deadly serious. What will Biden do about it? | Cas Mudde

The Capitol attack was the tip of the iceberg. The Biden administration must confront the full threat of the US far right

The cry for survival comes from the planet itself, a cry that can't be any more desperate or any more clear. And now a rise of political extremism, white supremacy, domestic terrorism that we must confront and we will defeat."

This sentence, in Joe Biden's inauguration speech, was manna from heaven for anti-fascists, including me, and in many ways a direct refutation of President Donald Trump's American carnage" speech four years ago. After decades of presidents minimizing the white supremacist threat, and four years of emboldening and protecting it, finally there is a president who dares to call the threat by its real name: white supremacy.