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'''Basic Trope''': Domestic armed extremist groups on the far right wing of the political spectrum are presented as villains.
* '''Straight''': [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|The Vanguard]] is a homegrown, ultra-nationalist paramilitary outfit that aims to overthrow the US government and install one in line with their ideals, which include xenophobia, [[Conspiracy Theorist|conspiracy theories]], a rural-oriented mindset and a basket of populist economic ideas of [[Artistic License Economics|varying sanity]].
* '''Exaggerated''': The Vanguard is an [[NGO Superpower]] that engages in [[Would Be Rude to Say Genocide|ethnic cleansing]] against non-whites and clashes with the [[Yanks With Tanks|US military]] in [[The War Sequence|vicious and destructive combined arms warfare]]. Even worse, a [[Villain with Good Publicity|a large segment of the populace supports the Vanguard's goals]], and they have [[The Mole|informants and sympathizers]] planted [[We Are Everywhere|throughout the government, armed forces, and media]].
* '''Justified''': In this setting, America's unstable political climate and [[Police Are Useless|lax law enforcement]] enable radical militias to do a lot of damage.
* '''Inverted''': The [[Dirty Communists|United People's Front]] is a vicious left-wing, anti-capitalist terrorist organization behind several deadly attacks.
* '''Subverted''':
** The Vanguard is really just a few loudmouth gun owners [[The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything|who don't have the guts to put their ideals into action]].
** The Vanguard is a pacifistic emergency preparedness organization that only believes in violence in self-defense, but has been lumped in with the nuts by association.
* '''Double Subverted''': Only that was just one group. The other guys, the Freedom Front, actually walk the walk, and are far more dangerous.
* '''Parodied''': The Vanguard's targets are a ridiculously petty list of people and businesses, such as the pizzeria for [[Least-Common Pizza Topping|putting anchovies on their pie]] or the record store for selling that bestial [[Gangsta Rap]]. And when they try to take action, [[What an Idiot!|they can't even get that part right]].
* '''Deconstructed''': The Vanguard's propensity for violence and racism alienates those who would normally sympathize with their anti-government aims. The more moderate members either leave the group or become informants for law enforcement, and the group falls apart under a wave of arrests, shootouts and bad publicity.
* '''Reconstructed''': As the moderates abandon the Vanguard, it shrinks down to the hardcore fringe. Freed of the inhibitions of those not committed to "the revolution", they engage on a spree of violence.
* '''Zig Zagged''': ???
* '''Averted''': In an environment where government, law and order have collapsed, right-wing militia terrorists ''don't'' crop up.
* '''Enforced''': ???
* '''Lampshaded''': ???
* '''Invoked''': ???
* '''Defied''': The Vanguard makes a point of purging those members who are inclined to terrorism and radicalism in order to maintain their respectability.
* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': ???

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