Commentary
In mid-May, an 18-year-old kid slogged a powerful weapon into a Buffalo, New York, grocery store and started shooting people based on race. Thirteen people were slaughtered. His goal was to start a race war, along the lines of the fiction books that inspired his online gurus. He livestreamed the carnage and left a manifesto explaining his motives. His ideology—which has deep roots and has spawned genocides—is the kind of demonic gibberish that unstable kids find on the internet when they are looking for some mission and meaning in life.
