Compared to extremists animated by far-left or jihadist beliefs, they radicalize later in life, are substantially more likely to have a violent criminal background and are more prone to substance-use disorders. And though it might be tempting to draw parallels between the insurrectionist movement and other extreme groups, he says America’s far-right extremists are different from what you might expect. Jensen has emerged as a leading figure in the fight against domestic extremism. That tended to be a pretty slow process.” “They had to recruit you in or introduce you to the ideas. In the 1980s or ’90s, a would-be far-right extremist had to “know somebody in your real-world life who was involved in it,” says Jensen. has shrunk from 18 months to 7 months, largely because of how much of our lives have shifted online. Jensen’s research has found that over the past roughly 15 years, the average time span of radicalization in the U.S. “Historically, mass radicalization took time,” says Michael Jensen, an expert on extremism who leads the domestic radicalization team at the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism.
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