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FBI has multiple declassified releases (e.g., Part 01 through Part 10) in the bureau’s FBI Vault:

https://vault.fbi.gov/patriot-front

The considerable redactions (entire sections) obscure "sensitive law enforcement information", code for, the FBIs involvement with PF.

The redactions also include the identities of informants, specific surveillance, operational tactics, and the names of other individuals.

> Economics, foreign policy, domestic policy[, etc.]

They don't look to be interested in actual politics. In a recent interview, Rousseau said that his speech actually overwhelmed PF's recruiters with applications.

If I recall correctly, Australia's NSN observed the same phenomenon before the state crushed it: the mass media drew attention to a march or some such thing, and then they were overwhelmed with applications.

In other words, building a political movement does *not* rely on ironing out the fine details of how you will govern before you get there.

> Hitler... DAP

Here I sort of agree: PF is pretty strongly Americanist, constitutionalist, republican, deeply invested in the Cult of the Founders, etc., and thus essentially has the liberal version of the DAP's *Volkisch* focus. However, while I'm not a fan of that ideology, I don't think that their laser focus on it really inhibits their growth as a group, because it is something else, such as the look or the speeches, that actually draws people towards it.

In other words, if there was no speech made, no rank and file discipline and uniformity in what the mass media broadcast of them globally, that would harm them *far* more than if they started detaching themselves from their laser focus on America's supposedly great past, one only ruined by 'Marxists' or whatever.

Disciplined, fit, uniformed men marching in formation (in the most successful groups, women should never be attendance) draws in the masses, not economic platforms. It worked well enough for Britain's National Front to make them the fourth or fifth largest political party: what actually destroyed NF was Thatcher's false, broken promises to enact various NF proposed policies, especially on immigration.

Another observation I have made long ago is that activist groups are *far* more successful than political parties. For instance, where I am, there are activist groups with far larger member counts than the top two political parties. These activist groups are able to influence the political parties (especially the leading Left-Wing activist group) very substantially. Actual political party membership here is very unimpressive, to say the least: even though one hears about them much less and the mass media talks about the political parties much more, enthusiasm for activist groups is actually much higher than for political parties. Consequently, PF would be wise not to attempt transitioning into a political party any time soon, and, if they do, also to keep the political party separate from PF (similar to NSN's attempt to form the White Australia Party [a clever name, because its acronym, WAP, would be the same as that of the White Australia Policy] right before the fearful state crushed them after the Bondicaust: Sewell did not try to convert NSN into a political party such that all NSN people would be political party members).

To use the NSDAP analogy: PF needs to be the SS, not the NSDAP. Furthermore, in line with my observation about activist groups, the political party should only be formed after PF is far larger than it currently is. For instance, if PF still doesn't have a presence in one US state, then it makes much more sense to focus on expanding there rather than to waste resources on electoral campaigns, which are expensive. The NF's successor, the BNP, was destroyed in part precisely because it invested excessive financial resources in an election that it performed very poorly in, severely damaging the party's internal economy.

We need to learn from other 'Far-Right' movements rather than thinking that we can reinvent the wheel, repeat their mistakes, and somehow succeed where they failed: the NF's message is that marches work to grow movements and the BNP's message is that biting off more than you can chew actually practically undoes all progress that you have made.