This is analogous to the RATs mantra about the dangers of “White Supremacists” that Clinton and Reno were conjuring up out of virtually nothing in the 90s. This crap led to Ruby Ridge and Waco. They are trying to revive this sort of crap again to justify extra-legal abuses.
If you label a group with cultlike status, you can do as you wish with them.
That's a bingo.
Osama did the same thing, within 90 days had a new “report” out on “home grown” “right wing” terrorism.