And this is just the most recent case. Yesterday, a group of kids on the Mummy ride at Universal Orlando were photographed giving the Nazi salute along with a hand gesture used by white supremacists.

The El Paso attack comes amid a five-year upward trend in reported hate crimes in the United States, according to the FBI. The spike is marked by particularly shocking killings, including those of nine members of a historically black church in Charleston, S.C., in 2015, 49 people at a Latino gay nightclub, Pulse, in Orlando in 2016, and a counterprotester at the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. During a House Judiciary Committee hearing in April, Chairman Jerrold Nadler called this rise in hate crimes “an urgent crisis in our country.”

After at least 50 people at two New Zealand mosques were killed by a young white nationalist a reporter asked Donald Trump whether he sees "today that white nationalism is a rising threat around the world?” Trump responded, “I don’t really.” This is not the first time Trump has been accused of catering to white nationalists after a terrorist attack. At an August 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, a young white man rammed his car into a crowd of counterprotesters, killing Heather Heyer. Afterward, Trump insisted that “there’s blame on both sides” for the violence.

Using the Anti-Defamation League’s Hate, Extremism, Anti-Semitism, Terrorism map data (HEAT map), the Washington Post examined whether there was a correlation between the counties that hosted one of Trump’s 275 presidential campaign rallies in 2016 and increased incidents of hate crimes in subsequent months.

They found that counties that had hosted a 2016 Trump campaign rally saw a 226 percent increase in reported hate crimes over comparable counties that did not host such a rally.

It is hard to discount a “Trump effect” when a considerable number of these reported hate crimes reference Trump. According to the ADL’s 2016 data, these incidents included vandalism, intimidation and assault. Recent research also shows that reading or hearing Trump’s statements of bias against particular groups makes people more likely to write offensive things about the groups he targets.

The 2020 presidential election will speak volumes to the world about the direction in which the majority of American's want to see the country taken. If this matters to you, and it should, please vote, and vote responsibly in 2020.