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The National Counterterrorism Strategy is a refreshing reset from previous misguided activities undertaken in the name of ‘counterterrorism.’

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With the fast pace of the news cycle, it is easy to miss all the good things the Trump administration is currently advancing. One key highlight was the National Counterterrorism Strategy issued from the White House this month. The strategy is a refreshing reset from previous decades of misguided and even malicious activities undertaken in the name of “counterterrorism” and points in a promising direction with immediate steps to restore and protect our nation, citizens, and way of life. The official strategy document touts many achievements of the Trump administration already in the first 17 months, but this brief survey will focus on the parts of the strategy that are most uniquely promising to America First patriots who have been hopeful supporters of the president.

The strategy identifies three main categories of terrorist groups that threaten the U.S.: “Narcoterrorists and Transnational Gangs,” “Legacy Islamist terrorists,” and “Violent Left-Wing Extremists, including Anarchists and Anti-Fascists.” The administration’s identification of cartel gang bangers, jihadists, and Antifa thugs as its top targets is a drastic change from just a few years ago when the Biden administration identified supposed white nationalists and right-wing domestic extremists as the “most lethal elements of today’s domestic terrorism threat.”

Border Security, Immigration, and the American Hemisphere

President Trump’s counterterrorism strategy rightly places border security, immigration enforcement, and hemispheric dominance at the top of its agenda for securing America from terrorist threats. Whereas previous administrations gladly spent untold amounts of American blood and treasure fighting the nebulous threat of terror globally and especially in the Middle East, Trump’s strategy openly touts a “return to common sense which dictates that some things are more important than others and … some regions are more important than others.” Common sense requires a focus on immigration and on our own hemisphere.

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