There were at least 91 white supremacist rallies or other public events attended by white supremacists in 2018, up from the 76 in 2017, a jump of 83%.
Also white supremacist propaganda efforts nearly tripled last year in 2018 with 1,187 cases of the propaganda, a 182% increase over the 421 amount reported in 2017.
At least 50 people in the U.S. were killed by domestic extremists in 2018, up from 37 in 2017.
According to the Southern Poverty Law Center the U.S. had more hate groups last year than at any point in at least the past two decades with 1,020 groups. 2018 was the fourth straight year of hate group growth with a 30% increase.
Note that those years coincide with Trump’s campaign and presidency. There had been a three straight years of decline near the end of the Obama administration.
In November the Justice Department reported that hate crimes across the U.S. spiked 17% in 2017 with 7,175 reported, up from 6,121 in 2016, according to the FBI report, more than half of the crimes were motivated by bias against a person’s race or ethnicity.
But too bad no one knows this, especially not the president.