seb gorka writes fanfic, calls it counterterrorism strategy
Sebastian Gorka unveils the new counterterrorism strategy, seen here in its original form: a Red Scare meme taped to a dartboard.
Sebastian Gorka, the cosplay general who somehow keeps failing upward, has produced a 16-page counterterrorism "strategy" that reads like a Telegram rant with a letterhead. On a press call, Trump’s counterterrorism czar helpfully clarified the intellectual rigor behind the document by calling critics of the Iran war "testicularly challenged", because nothing says serious national security planning like middle school locker-room taunts.
The memo itself is, as one analyst put it, "largely slop": it declares three big bads—"narcoterrorists and transnational gangs", "legacy Islamist terrorists", and "violent left-wing extremists"—then somehow forgets that far-right and white supremacist groups are the ones actually killing people at home. Instead, it demands the "neutralization" of "radically pro-transgender" and "anti-American" ideologies, insists immigration has turned Europe into an "incubator of terror", and promises to "map" and cripple left-wing groups using every "constitutionally available" tool. The fact that the Constitution does not, in fact, authorize turning your political enemies into a domestic al-Qaeda seems to have been redacted for vibes.
To really sell the gag, the memo accuses past administrations of "weaponizing" intelligence against innocent Americans while laying out a plan to do exactly that: expanded surveillance, renditions, illegal strikes, and deploying the military and immigration cops as a roving repression squad. Civil liberties advocates point out that this is not a bug but the feature: the strategy openly embraces state violence, dehumanizes Muslims, migrants, and trans people, and recasts dissent from the right’s agenda as an "existential terror threat" to be stamped out. It’s a blueprint for using the war-on-terror machinery to crush democracy, wrapped in patriotic clip art and Gorka’s thesaurus abuse.
The bleak punchline is that Trump and Gorka didn’t invent this toolbox; they’re just the first to wave it around while bragging about how fun it’ll be to use. As rights groups note, decades of bipartisan counterterrorism overreach built the surveillance, detention, and militarized policing infrastructure now being openly repurposed to target the left. Trump’s contribution is the honesty: no more pretending this is about "security" when it’s obviously about power, punishment, and a presidency that views the law as something to step over on the way to the next press conference.
