The shooting in El Paso last weekend was one of the deadliest attacks against Latinos in recent memory. And in the aftermath, President Trump was blamed for encouraging the violence with his inflammatory anti-immigrant language, although he’s dismissed this criticism so far. We will likely never know how much the […] Read more »
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 […] Read more »
Who’s to blame for mass shootings? On that, some bipartisan agreement
Americans overwhelmingly blame the mental health system, racism and white nationalism, and loose gun laws for a series of mass shootings that have shaken communities across the country. A USA TODAY/Ipsos Poll taken Monday and Tuesday, in the wake of deadly violence in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, shows […] Read more »
Can Trump’s Words Incite Violence?
This installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast deals with two mass shootings this weekend, one of which was explicitly tied to white nationalist terrorism. On Saturday, a young white man targeted immigrants and killed at least 20 people at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, in an attack being investigated […] Read more »
El Paso shooter wasn’t a ‘lone wolf’ — and his so-called online ‘manifesto’ proves why
It’s mourning again in America. Many of us went to sleep on Saturday night grieving the news of a mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, motivated by racism. We woke up Sunday morning to another mass murder in Dayton, Ohio, this one with even less of a motive. Journalists are […] Read more »
Most Americans thought Trump encouraged white supremacists — even before El Paso
A mass shooting this weekend in El Paso has prompted comparisons between the shooter’s apparently racist motives of preventing a “Hispanic invasion,” according to a manifesto authorities think he may have posted, and President Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric. Many are pointing to the president’s words and actions for encouraging the same […] Read more »