![]() ![]() The authors also examined support for political violence, QAnon, and the Great Replacement theory.Support for extremist groups - including white supremacism, Proud Boys, black nationalism, and Antifa - ranged from 1 percent (White supremacists) to 5.5 percent (Antifa) and was generally lower than rates derived from previous representative surveys of the general population.There was no evidence to support the notion that the veteran community, as a whole, manifests higher rates of support for violent extremist groups or extremist beliefs than the American public. ![]() The authors conducted a representative survey of nearly 1,000 veterans in the United States to assess the prevalence of support for violent extremist groups and causes.Interestingly, the majority of those who supported political violence were not also supporters of specific groups. Among other findings, the veteran community, as a whole, did not manifest higher support than the general population. The authors compared their results with those from surveys of the general population. To help address these concerns, the authors conducted a nationally representative survey of veterans to examine the prevalence of support for specific extremist groups and ideologies, including support for political violence. The unique and often lonely experience of leaving the military has been hypothesized to make veterans susceptible to such recruitment. Extremist groups actively target military members and veterans for recruitment targets because of their training and operational, logistic, and leadership skills. Although subsequently revised downward, early reports suggested that as many as one in five Capitol Hill attackers was currently or had previously been affiliated with the U.S. veteran community is at increased risk of radicalization to violent extremism. Policymakers and researchers are increasingly concerned that the U.S. ![]()
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