The FBI and Department of Homeland Security have processes in place to identify domestic threats, they simply failed to implement them out of fear of Trump loyalists and, presumably, Trump himself. Josh Kovensky investigates how this came to pass for Talking Points Memo:

Nobody wanted to write a formal intelligence report about this, in part out of fear that such a report would be very poorly received by the MAGA folks within DHS,” one former DHS official who served in the Trump administration told TPM, on condition of anonymity to speak freely.

Time and again, Republicans have proven that their job of keeping Americans safe is secondary to aligning facts to fit the narrative that they alone can keep us safe. The only reason we even have a Department of Homeland Security is because Republicans failed to respond properly to the intelligence of an imminent terrorist attack.

We’ve known since before Trump was elected the FBI and DHS are filled with partisans who oppose Democratic leadership as a matter of course. One of the many challenges of the Biden administration is going to be how to root them out.