White supremacist terror is rising, and Trump's policies kneecap our ability to fight back

https://news.yahoo.com/white-supremacist-terror-rising-trump-071503426.html

George Selim
,USA TODAY Opinion•August 3, 2019

Six months after a gunman shouting “all Jews must die” killed 11 people at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, another gunman in another synagogue killed one worshiper and wounded three — this time in Poway, California.

Violent extremism and homegrown terrorism have not abated since neo-Nazis and white supremacists marched two years ago in Charlottesville, Virginia; in fact, they are demonstrably on the rise. Yet the Trump administration has been chipping away at our nation’s ability to address these serious threats to national security.

The Department of Homeland Security, charged with reporting on such threats to local law enforcement, last year eliminated a unit of intelligence analysts tasked with tracking and combating domestic terrorism, according to a Daily Beast report citing anonymous current and former officials.

The administration’s "National Strategy for Counterterrorism," issued last October just before the Tree of Life shooting, addresses the imperative of countering domestic terrorism. Yet the administration is reducing rather than increasing the resources our security apparatus needs to do so.

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