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Sunday 4 August 2019

We must call the El Paso shooting what it is: Trump-inspired terrorism | David Schanzer

It is staggering to imagine how much more violence this president may motivate if he continues down this deeply disturbing path

Last year, when a rabid, anti-immigrant anti-Semite murdered 11 people in a Pittsburgh synagogue, I called it an act of domestic terrorism inspired by the ideology of Trumpism. The shooting took place during the height of the 2018 midterm campaign when Trump was inciting fear of an immigrant “caravan” from Central America. The shooter got the message. Hours before his bloody rampage, he accused a Jewish refugee support agency of bringing “invaders in that kill our people.”

Saturday in El Paso it was déjà vu all over again.

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