CrabbedOne
Walking sideways snippily
Yes, they do appear very happy. These KKK types think Trump may make good on campaign rhetoric which it seems they took to be him just parroting their memes with great political success.
However no Executive Order has been issued as far as I know. That this is going to happen has been leaked to Reuters by people "briefed" to that intent. I'd assume by high up civil servants not happy about it as it's a very an unhelpful idea. The Countering Violent Extremism language is still on the DHS site for instance it's not been changed to Combating Islamic Extremism.
By definition the President has limited powers here. State agencies don't answer to him. Most US law enforcement is local. It's very unlikely that even powerful federal agencies like the FBI would actually ignore the US far right even if told to by the President as there's rather a lot of criminal activity connected. The Feds have decades of investment in infiltrating neo-Confederate groups etc that have largely superseded the KKK.
The focus was already largely on Muslims under Obama with the right resisting classing white supremacist attacks as terrorism. Trump's fondness for sectarian rhetoric is doing a very good job of stirring up an atmosphere were we'll see more attacks on Muslims in the name of protecting the Fatherland.
Same's true in Europe as well only with it being far more likely that there is an escalatory spiral of reciprocal cycle of attacks. It's been an explicitly stated AQ policy to provoke a race war in Dar al Harb since about 04. They actually seem to have borrowed the idea from neo-Nazis influenced by The Turner Diaries.
