I submitted a comment earlier, and was encouraged to submit it as a diary.
The following story was on NPR’s Weekend Edition this morning, and the statistic that was cited was jarring.
https://www.npr.org/2019/01/27/689121187/masculinity-and-u-s-extremism-what-makes-young-men-vulnerable-to-toxic-ideologie
Listen to the first 30 seconds or so to hear it for yourselves: the story reported that 98% of extremist-related murders in the U.S. in 2018 were carried out by right-wing extremists, according to the Anti-Defamation League. Ninety-eight percent.
Then I visited the ADL site, and revised the number…upward. The revision is reflected in the title: 100%
Right-Wing Extremism Linked to Every 2018 Extremist Murder in the U.S., ADL Finds
www.adl.org/…
This is neither an isolated nor sudden development. It’s a worsening development.
Last year’s murders at the hands of right-wing extremists reflect an ongoing trend. ADL’s Center on Extremism, which has aggregated data going back to 1970, shows that over the last decade, a total of 73.3 percent of all extremist-related fatalities can be linked to domestic right-wing extremists, while 23.4 percent can be attributed to Islamic extremists. The remaining 3.2 percent were carried out by extremists who did not fall into either category.
This is the malignant consequence of what the Republican Party has cultivated for decades and what Trump provides ideological safe harbor for in their mutual pursuit of power.
I challenge Ralph Nader and other practitioners of bothsiderism to again tell us how there’s no difference between Republicans and Democrats. What makes it worse is that they knew better.
They goddamned knew better.