"Here is how the Counter Extremism Project (CEP), a non-profit, non-partisan organization that tracks extremist groups, and the Anti-Defamation League, characterize the group:
- The Base is an "accelerationist group that encourages the onset (of) anarchy and so it can then 'impose order from chaos.'" The CEP says The Base seeks to train members to fight a race war and draws inspiration from the book "Siege" by the neo-Nazi James Mason."