A Washington Post analysis finds what every similar analysis has also found: Far-right violence is not only on the rise, but "has surged" with the election of Donald Trump.

Over the past decade, attackers motivated by right-wing political ideologies have committed dozens of shootings, bombings and other acts of violence, far more than any other category of domestic extremist, according to a Washington Post analysis of data on global terrorism. While the data show a decades-long drop-off in violence by left-wing groups, violence by white supremacists and other far-right attackers has been on the rise since Barack Obama’s presidency — and has surged since President Trump took office.

Of course it is. It can be expected to continue, as well, and a large part of that is the winking dismissal of far-right violence by Trump himself. When a pro-Confederate white nationalist drove a car into a crowd of protesters in Charlottesville, killing one, Trump could be bothered to give only the blandest of rote condemnations. Trump's declarations that the free press is the enemy of the people is the background to gunmen killing members of that free press. At least one devoted fan took Trump's personal enemies list to heart, taking it upon himself to mail explosive devices to the names Trump groused about most often. Another far-right terrorist, paranoias stoked by an unending stream of accusations in which wealthy Jewish benefactors are supposedly thwarting far-right anti-immigration plans, murdered Americans in their synagogue not because he believed they were the most responsible for the secret plot, but merely because they were the most convenient to target.

Trump doesn't have to endorse the violence. The damage is done by his rhetoric, unending speeches in which the "enemy," he warns his supporters, are all around them. Everyone is an enemy, or might be. Minorities, the press, particular businesses, or politicians, or states, or scientific endeavors—whatever crosses his mind on any particular day. Trump's vast and sweeping public paranoias act to legitimize the personal paranoias of America's great many unstable people; when you see the putative President of These United States muttering about his invisible enemies on a daily basis, surely it validates your own tinpot fantasies of oppression, rebellion, and revenge.