The Dogs That Don’t Bark

One of the few features that distinguishes politically motivated terroristic violence on the right from the same kind of violence on the left are the divergent reactions they inspire.

We don’t have to look far for evidence of the extent to which the psychological derangements that lead to right-wing violence are covered as though they have significant purchase with the public. Indeed, the subtextual goal of that sort of coverage is to convey to readers that most Americans are only just barely sufficiently well adjusted to keep their sympathies with the violent right to themselves.