Every extremist murder in 2018 was linked to right-wing terrorism
Every extremist murder in the U.S. in 2018 was linked to right-wing extremism, according to an alarming new report from the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism.
The annual report found that at least 50 people were killed by extremists in 2018, marking a 35 percent increase from 2017.
This makes 2018 the fourth-deadliest year on record for domestic extremist-related killings since 1970.
All 50 murders were committed by people with ties to at least one right-wing extremist movement, making right-wing extremists responsible for more killings in 2018 than any year since 1995, when Timothy McVeigh bombed a federal building in Oklahoma City.
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Even in the face of a mountain of evidence showing that right-wing extremists pose the greatest danger to the homeland, Trump and members of his administration still point to Islamic extremism and illegal immigration as the primary domestic terror threats in America.
When one immigrant commits a crime, Trump uses them as an example to demonize all immigrants, but when white supremacists commit violent crimes en masse, Trump ignores it completely — or even worse, shuts down programs to prevent the violence and redirects resources to focus on threats other than white supremacist terrorism.
And now, the same racism and anti-immigrant fervor that are fueling Trump’s ongoing demands for a border wall to keep people out are blinding him to the greatest threat — the one that’s already here.
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