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How to Keep Vets From Being Seduced by Extremists

The military is just a microcosm of the rest of us.
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The training many of our military people get is damn dangerous if abused or put to criminal use once one returns to civilian life. That “battlefield to home” transition IMO can make some people extra vulnerable to extremist messaging such as we hear from the Oathkeepers and Proud Boys. …

"It brings back a lot of shame," Christian Picciolini says of his time fronting a white power punk band. He has since disavowed the white supremacist movement and works to help others disengage from it too. Dennis Sevilla/Hachette Book Group