Trump's Rhetoric Is Raising the Risk of Right-Wing Terrorism

Politics quickly eclipsed horror after Robert Bowers allegedly gunned down 11 worshipers at a Pittsburgh synagogue in October. The shooting, the worst anti-Semitic attack in American history, almost immediately became intertwined with Donald Trump's divisive presidency. While the president appropriately condemned a "wicked act of murder" and anti-Semitism in general, he also quickly veered toward his own domestic political agenda, telling reporters that the shooting was not related to permissive...