Toward the end of Jeffery Deaver's The Skin Collector, Rhyme reflects that, though Muslim terrorism in the US gets all the press and generates the outrage, the Christian, racist, white male supremacist and bitterly Nativist radical right has always been a much greater policing problem, causing more violence and bloodshed.
You can't read the last hundred pages or so without finding the rise of Trump and Trumpism all the more horrifying.
See this on Kansas, Fox News, and terrorism.
If the point was at least in part to discourage immigration or to encourage immigrants to leave, this plot to commit hate crimes was indeed a terrorist plot.
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