China has also been identified by Bongino as a strategic issue. Long-term Chinese goals were thwarted by Trump’s trade decoupling, technological restrictions, and geopolitical conflict policies. Beijing does not act rashly, but it does act deliberately. Security experts do not take lightly any destabilization of U.S. political leadership that serves strategic objectives. Serious repercussions may result from even indirect engagement or exploitation of home vulnerabilities.
On the other hand, domestic threats can be even less predictable. According to Bongino, a small but dangerous minority of people now feel that extreme behavior is increasingly acceptable because of years of public dehumanization, ridicule of violence, and accepted hateful speech toward Trump. Lone-wolf attackers are rarely impulsive, as history demonstrates. Repeated message, apparent moral approval, and the conviction that their actions will be justified by a larger purpose all influence them.
