The past several years have been marred with hate crimes or violence spawned by different ideologies, beliefs and expressions of freedom. The array of beliefs that exist across the U.S. and the rest of the world are what make individual nations and their people diverse, unique and extraordinary. At the same time, however, those different ideologies and beliefs can sometimes lead to violence or threats to public safety and national security.
According to the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a surge in domestic terrorism and radicalization has occurred since the mid-90s. The CSIS says that the number of domestic terrorism incidents peaked at its highest so far in 2020. Since 2015, right-wing extremists have been involved in 267 plots or attacks and 91 fatalities, the data shows. Attacks and plots ascribed to far-left views accounted for 66 incidents leading to 19 deaths. More than a quarter of right-wing incidents and just under half of the deaths in those incidents were caused by people who showed support for white supremacy or claimed to belong to groups espousing that ideology, the analysis shows.