Of all the radical right's multiple permutations in the era of Donald Trump—Proud Boys, QAnon conspiracy theorists, "Patriot" militiamen, and "Boogaloo Bois" among them—the most worrisome by far is the spread of white-power "accelerationism": a belief system predicated on the idea that modern human civilization (and especially its multicultural features) is a blight, and that the only solution is to encourage its destruction through acts of terroristic violence. Its followers explicitly embrace violence as the only viable means for change, because they see politics as a waste of time.....

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