In 2020, the “vast majority” of domestic terrorism acts were committed or motivated by “white supremacists or militias or other like-minded, violent, far-right entities,” counterrorism expert Seth Jones told Yahoo Finance.
“In the last few years, what we've seen is a significant increase in the number of individuals involved in what we call violent far-right, and to some degree, of smaller numbers, violent far-left terrorism,” Jones, the director of the Transnational Threats Project and senior adviser to the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), told Yahoo Finance Live, noting that Wednesday’s violent riots and breach of the Capitol were “certainly” terrorism.