Almost every post-9/11 mass killing in America was perpetrated by white supremacists. While they don’t profess a supranational affiliation such as “The Islamic State”, these Nazi and KKK clones and individual fanatics are linked in many ways, more closely, now, through social media . By failing to view them as an organized threat the way we view Islamic terrorism or as they view Jews, Hispanics, African-Americans and Muslims, we license them to menace minorities and critics in public forums and on the margins of free speech. And, much like The Islamic State, they occasionally arouse a pathetic adherent to fulfill their murderous ambitions.

The Charlottesville chants of “Jews will not replace us” and “Russia is our friend” still rankle, but so do those among us who refrain from condemning these monsters by referring to the “antifa” and alluding to the “good people” among them, or by acquitting their “benign” media partisans as “merely” alt-right – You know: “just somewhat” trayf.