Far right extremists in the United States killed more than twice as many people in 2017 - the first year of the Trump administration - than they did in the previous year, and murdered far more people than did domestic Islamic extremists.

A new report "Murder and Extremism in the United States in 2017" from the Anti-Defamation League's Center on Extremism said extremists killed 34 people last year.  59 percent of them were killed by right-wing extremists - white supremacists, the so-called "alt-right", and members of anti-government militia movements.  The 18 of people killed by white supremacists marks a 157 percent increase over the prior year.

"Americans do not have the luxury to ignore any extremist threat, including threats posed by white supremacists who are weaponizing social media and are more likely to take their actions into the streets," said Jonathan Greenblatt, the ADL's CEO.  "Their actions fuel controversy and conflict and their racist rhetoric and hateful ideas can inspire violence."

The world was horrified when more than a thousand fascist scum descended on college town of Charlottesville, Virginia for rallies modeled after those held in nazi Germany in the 1930s.  After a day of the cops sitting on their thumbs as racists took advantage of their greater numbers to attack peaceful counter-protesters, a member of the far-right extremist group Vanguard America named James Alex Fields Jr. was videos from several angles ramming his car into a crowd of protesters, injuring 19 people and killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer.

Other attacks didn't make the world news:  A white supremacist stabbed two men to death on a Portland, Oregon tram; a white supremacist from Maryland named James Harris Jackson traveled to New York City and stabbed a 66-year old black man to death with a sword; 17-year-old self-proclaimed fascist Nicholas Giampa murdered the parents of his girlfriend in their Virginia home after they forbade her from seeing him, and then committed suicide; 21-year-old William Atchison frequented racist websites, and then went to a high school in Aztec, New Mexico where he killed two students.

The murders represent "the tip of a pyramid of extremist violence and crime in the United States" wrote the ADL.  "For each person actually killed by an extremist, many more are wounded or injured in attempted murders and assaults," the report continued.

The orange clown Donald Trump last year cancelled funding for a program aimed at de-radicalizing neo-nazis.  After the violence in Charlottesville, he defended the racists and claimed "very fine people on both sides" of that day's demonstration.