For instance, this fellow Thomas Rousseau, the founder and leader, is profiled on the SPLC Web Site. It's a pretty detailed biography. Seeing as he started the Patriot Front in 2017, he must have been recruited to the FBI at age 17 as either a junior-agent or a very young assset.
That strikes me as nonsensical.
Clearly you are well up on current events in a way that I am not. I don’t know if Patriot Front is a genuine group. My first thought regarding the Idaho situation is that a bunch of ignorant guys were gulled and set up to be apprehended. Again, just my opinion.