said this most recent mass shooting highlights how little the country has done in reckoning with the growing danger of white supremacy in this country.
"The last two years -- 2021 and 2020 -- were the highest recorded years of domestic terrorism, plots and attacks, so the trends are pretty concerning," CSIS Senior Vice President Seth Jones said in an interview with ABC News.
However, Jones said the federal government needs to do a better job collecting and releasing data on domestic terrorist attacks and plots and informing Americans about the severity of right-wing extremism.
The normalization of white supremacy and the growing divisive rhetoric of the far-right, Hayden and Morial said, serves to exploit the concerns of vulnerable populations regarding social issues, score political points, and win gains for people in power.
Experts said there are two routes to combatting white supremacist extremism in America -- personally and through policy.
White supremacy has been the motive behind several fatal mass shootings in recent years, past ABC News reporting shows.
"This is a deep-seated challenge in the United States, particularly in a culture where individuals have such easy access to guns," Jones said.
On a personal level, experts recommend calling out racism and white supremacy in your communities as another way to de-normalize and de-platform racist narratives
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