More on this since I'm home with my books now:

Violence plays a central role here, since many of these individuals are active in the suppression of the surplus population in the near hinterland - the exurb bordering newly impoverished, diverse inner-ring suburbs where immigrants settle in large numbers alongside those forced out of the urban core by skyrocketing rents. This reactionary politics is simply the idea that the regular violence used by the status quo in its maintenance of the present world of police, prisons, and poverty might also be widened, aimed at the urban core itself and the soft-handed liberals made to suffer. The world can be restored into the hands of the barbarians through salvific acts of violence, capable of forcing the collapse and hastening the approach of the True Community. It is in this way that the far right in the US, as elsewhere, is an essentially terroristic force, and will almost always target the innocent, the weak, and the dispossessed in its exercise of power. Behind the call to "start the world" lies a desire to simply watch it all collapse, to force the world to burn, and everyone to burn with it.

-Hinterlands (2018), by Phil A Neel