A tiny radical group provoked massive government attention at all levels

Evidence

What is it about this group—which never numbered more than a few dozen—that inspired the U.S. government, at all three levels, to spend hundreds of thousands of man hours, and millions of dollars, working toward its destruction? — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 1221

Categorization

• QUESTION: The question is the whole chapter’s engine. Why did a few dozen Black back-to-nature radicals merit such disproportionate state violence? Worth research.
• XREF: connects to: Media publicity supplies the fuel that lets small jihadist cells threaten great powers — Scott Atran, The Devoted Actor: Unconditional…, 66; A tiny far-right fringe, not the population, dominated the Maidan’s militant core — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 492