A recently foiled southwest Kansas terrorist plot fits a trend in recent years in which experts say surging anti-government extremist and Islamophobic extremist ideologies are melding. The three men arrested in connection with the Garden City bomb plan also have alleged links to larger networks with similar anti-government and xenophobic beliefs.
Far-right anti-government groups, which have a nearly 50-year-old history in the U.S., have surged since 2009, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League, which document extremism and ...