“We haven’t gone four weeks since February without some poor guy — always with a long history of mental illness, usually with a record of military service and/or domestic violence, and invariably jacked up on a toxic cocktail of white male privilege; us-versus-them enemy seeking; fury at women, blacks and/or Jews; and a belief that the world as he knew it was ending unless he took up arms — taking out his gun and offing innocent Americans in a suicidal bid for glory.”

Sara Robinson of Orcinus has a tally of far-right murders since the election, analyzing the cultural factors motivating this type of violence. I think her conclusion is alarmist, but it’s extremely concerning to connect the dots.