Hate groups are recruiting our young people into a toxic belief system | By David Neiwert for CNNOpinion
Editor's note: David Neiwert is an investigative journalist based in Seattle, a staff writer for Daily Kos, and the author of several books, most recently Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump. He is also a contributor to the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Report and is affiliated with Type Investigations, formerly known as The Investigative Fund of the Nation Institute. The views expressed here are his. Read more opinion on CNN.
I think Lady Sansa may have put it best the other night on"Game of Thrones:""That's the most heroic thing we can do now. Look the truth in the face." Americans who are grappling with their new reality -- one in which white nationalism and various kinds of far-right extremism are not only ascendant, but now also serially producing horrific mass killings -- need to look the truth in the face, too: It's real. And it isn't on the margins. Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens are blowing smoke. It's not a figment of the liberal media's imagination or anyone else's.
Alicia Garza: Being 'woke' isn't enough 00:55And that's just a small sampling of what American families are facing. If anyone epitomizes the problem, really, it is the family of the young man who walked into the synagogue in Poway, California, last week and opened fire. He had consumed many anti-Semitic beliefs and absorbed much white-nationalist ideology.
This Antifa activist carries sparkly brass knuckles and a knife 'just in case' 00:58We all share in the blame for this, because -- perhaps understandably -- we have all been looking away from the problem or dismissing it too easily. But this is a beast that thrives in darkness, and grows and blooms there, sometimes into something we can no longer keep to the margins.
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