From Infidel753:
Sometimes it’s hard to know where to start. Neo-Nazis instigating murderous violence is not, in itself, terribly surprising. It comes with the territory of the ideology with which they’ve chosen to associate themselves. People who aren’t violent probably don’t become neo-Nazis in the first place.
What immediately struck me about the attack that killed Heather Heyer and injured many others was that ramming a car into a crowd of people is an established jihadist tactic — they’ve used it several times in Britain and France, and nobody had any hesitation in labeling those incidents as terrorism. The driver in this case may even have gotten the idea from reading about those attacks in the news.
The circumstances fueling our neo-Nazi, Confederate-revivalist, and militant Christian Right movements also resemble those fueling jihadism. In both cases a culturally-conservative society (the USA outside its urban cores, the Middle East) has for decades seen a massive influx of liberal ideas eroding the dominance of a traditional monoculture, challenging that monoculture’s deepest taboos, and shifting the entire society towards cultural pluralism. In both cases, reactionaries angry and frightened at that loss of dominance are trying to re-assert it by embracing extremist ideology and militance against cultural change. The demand is, put everything back the way it was before — before blacks and women and gays started getting uppity, before anti-Semitism became unacceptable in polite society. Back when our belief system was dominant and no one dared question it.
Next, Trump and his “many, many sides” blithering.