A right-wing extremist, armed with a semi-automatic handgun and an avowed hatred for women and people of color, shot up a yoga studio in Tallahassee, Florida, over the weekend, killing two and wounding five others before he shot himself dead.
Scott Beierle, 40, was a solo gunman but he wasnt really alone. He had a hateful wind at his back a month of slayings, assaults and harassment aimed at Jews, black people and Democrats and carried out with tacit endorsement of the wrongdoers rage, if not necessarily their actions, from conservative pundits and the president of the United States.
This is a month of American hate: