'Killing neighbors over politics': Expert warns extremism is tearing apart communities

Political extremists have been radicalized to the point that it is causing random acts of violence all over the country as people turn on their neighbors, warned the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace's Rebecca Kleinfeld in an interview with Salon Monday.

On one hand, Kleinfeld argued, we are seeing less of the sort of organized rioting that grabbed headlines through much of the Trump years, from the neo-Nazi Charlottesville "Unite the Right" rally to the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol — in large part because far-right activists have become paranoid and believe any large gathering within their movement is an FBI false flag.

This happened in August, when Trump surrendered for arrest at the Fulton County Jail, and a rally for Trump at the building was hampered by paranoia among his supporters.

But they haven't abandoned their violence, she continued — they've just directed it at their own communities.