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Okay, the numbers are in for 2017.

And the headline over at Newsweek says at all white supremacist killed 18 people in 2017 double the number of people from 2016.

And then when you put that in the context of all extremists killing people,

it was 34 in the United States last year and 18 of them were killed by white

supremacists so more than half of all the all the basically terror-related murders in the United States last year,

more than half of them were done by white supremacist.

It seems to me that this is a story that should get a little more coverage.

In the past decade, in the last 10 years,

White's right-wing extremism made up 71% of extremist-related murders compared to 26%

of murders by Islamic extremists.

It's just remarkable.

It's just remarkable.

The New York Times had a piece has a piece this morning.

It's it's by Max Fisher and Amanda Taub.

And it's a little video where they point out that, and you can see this over at the New York Times

website, they point out that over the last 200 years we've gone from basically no democracies

in the world or a couple, hours being one of the very

first at the time that the United States became a democracy in 1787 arguably or even 1776,

there were a few other countries that arguably were

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