Opinion | How we can defeat violent white supremacy — and why we probably won't

Opinion | Lev Golinkin: The Pittsburgh synagogue shooting's anniversary shows what's needed to defeat white terrorism. - NBCNewsTHINK

have pointed out, there are multiple parallels between modern white supremacists and Islamist terrorists.

The difference is that, after 9/11, the U.S. government enacted a wholesale overhaul of our national security apparatus to combat the Islamist threat. Of course, the Tree of Life shooting was nowhere near the magnitude of 9/11, but still, one would expect Pittsburgh, Christchurch and El Paso — three massive acts of white terrorism, all inspired by the same ideology and all occuring within months of each other — to galvanize serious changes on the federal level.

Tracking this evolving transnational hydra will require a highly specialized unit devoted solely to white terrorism. Just like Islamist counterterrorism, this will necessitate analysts fluent in over a dozen tongues and intimately familiar with regional history,and jargon.

Under the best-case scenario, creating this infrastructure will take years, not months; at this point, a year out from the Tree of Life massacre, we’ve only taken the first wispy steps toward envisioning a real defense.

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