Did El Paso show us that white supremacists are a serious threat? Few Republicans think so.

Last weekend’s mass shooting in El Paso has refocused the nation’s attention on the threat of white supremacism. …

Over the past decade, right-wing extremist killings have outnumbered those by Islamist extremists about 3 to 1 in the United States.

Yet while there is a widespread and bipartisan consensus that Islamist terrorism poses a serious threat to the United States, there is an enormous and growing partisan divide over how serious to treat threats from white supremacists. CONT.

Michael Tesler (UC Irvine), Monkey Cage