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\n\tThe UFC\u2019s event at the White House was the perfect target for a terror attack: America\u2019s elites, clustered around a small octagon in the open air for hours. A chaotic, packed city center. Plenty of cops and soldiers, to be sure, but then again, there are few defenses for a fast, deadly drone. As I sat through the event last weekend, I half expected something to go wrong. We seemed like sitting ducks, in a country that has amped itself up for political violence at every turn.<\/p>\n

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\n\tEarlier this week, the FBI claimed that they had foiled just such a plot. On Tuesday, the Justice Department charged five individuals with various offenses connected to a planned attack on the UFC\u2019s event. Secret Service agents said the plot could still be ongoing, and that more suspects could still be at large even though the event has ended \u2014 but FBI Director Kash Patel jumped ahead to announce it without their knowledge.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe government alleges that at least five men planned to attack the UFC White House event with a combination of explosive drones and rifles, setting up shooting positions in downtown Washington, D.C. ,to pick off fleeing civilians. Whether the suspects were actually capable of such a feat is unclear. But the political moment that pushed them to such an extreme fantasy of violence is all too real, according to one extremism expert, and the next plot to use drones and bombs on a political target may be much less clumsy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cMass shootings will always be a part of mass violence in the U.S., but the drone element is coming,\u201d Joshua Fisher-Birch, a researcher at the Counter Extremism Project, tells Rolling Stone<\/em>. Fisher-Birch specializes in monitoring and analyzing the online posts of extremists, analyzing trends and predicting where violence may come from next.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Justice Department\u2019s filing notes that one of the group\u2019s key members was a 19-year-old named Tycen Proper, who had amassed weapons and thousands of rounds of ammunition. Proper and \u201cmore serious\u201d members of the group moved their communications to an encrypted messaging app, where they discussed an attack with explosive-laden drones and setting up sniper positions near the event. According to ESPN, Proper was hospitalized on June 10, days before the event, after his mother called police out of concern for him. Other alleged members of the group, including Californians Bryan Roa and Michael Thomas, were arrested after the DOJ executed search warrants at their homes on June 13. Fox News reported that one alleged member, Abraham Alvarez, was a foreign national who was a beneficiary of the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe biggest question still hanging over the investigation is what, exactly, motivated the group of men to take action \u2014 or at least attempt to. Some of the most illuminating details in the case come from an interview investigators conducted with Proper\u2019s mother, who initially turned her son in because she was worried about him. According to , Proper\u2019s mother said he had \u201cexpressed ultra-religious and antigovernment sentiments, specifically citing grievances about government corruption, the handling of the Epstein files, data centers taking up all the water in communities, and other government actions.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tOther evidence, however, points to even darker motives. According to The Washington Post<\/em>, investigators were also informed by family members that Proper had made antisemitic comments online. Proper\u2019s co-conspirators had also shared similar sentiments, trading in popular conspiracies about Jewish influence over the American government, and in some cases praising Adolf Hitler.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tRight-wing, anti-government sentiment comes in many different factions and flavors. Fisher-Birch says that from what he can see, the UFC plot did not bear all of the hallmarks of an \u201caccellerationist\u201d plot, or one planned by forces seeking a total collapse of the American government and society.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe ideology itself is a little bit hazy at this point,\u201d Fisher-Birch says. \u201cI\u2019m sort of seeing a mix of narratives.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tAntisemitism, Fisher-Birch says, appears to be one of the unifying factors in the current plot\u2019s participants. Trump\u2019s war with Iran has super-charged anti-Israel sentiment in the United States, further galvanizing extremist movements and conspiracy theorists who have long sought to link broad antisemitic views to the United States\u2019 political relationship with Israel.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cA lot of this is built on decades of conspiracy theories related to what\u2019s seen as taking away sovereignty from the American people,\u201d Fisher-Birch says.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThese extremists aren\u2019t directly connected to any mainstream political movement, but for those on the rightward end of the spectrum, Trump\u2019s presidency has been a polarizing era.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThere is this aspect of betrayal because people have said, \u2018We thought Donald Trump was going to stand up for white men in this country and he hasn\u2019t _ he\u2019s sold us out to the jews,\u2019\u201d Fisher-Birch says. \u201cThe term they may use is \u2018Zion Don.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tStill, Fisher-Birch says, \u201cIf the Democrats were in power they\u2019d be using some of these same narratives, it would just be slightly different terminology.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe failed plot, in other words, is a significant data point in what could be a disastrous trend in American politics. Social polarization and a confluence of conspiracy theories relating to many intersecting aspects of American life \u2014 antisemitism, foreign policy, data centers, economics, immigration \u2014 provide a myriad of opportunities for domestic terrorists to recruit and motivate followers. The choice of armament, as well, is significant: the U.S. has yet to suffer a major domestic terror incident involving small consumer drones, but it\u2019s almost certainly in our future. The Guardian reported last year that more and more domestic extremist groups were looking into using drones for prospective attacks.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cExtremist groups who want to commit acts of violence are always going to look for tools that they can use to increase their lethality,\u201d Fisher-Birch says. \u201cCan you just imagine the headlines that an attack using drones would get?\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd while the UFC plot may not be connected to explicit accelerationist sentiment, Fisher-Birch says that accelerationist philosophies are here to stay \u2014 even beyond the end of the Trump administration, as they tend to recruit best during periods of liberal government.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe plot against the UFC\u2019s White House event may have been foiled, but the conditions that led to it remain in place.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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