The recent deadly attack at a San Diego mosque had all the trappings of a violent neo-Nazi ideology that has grown virulent in modern-day America.

A pair of troubled, gun-toting teenage boys. A lengthy “manifesto” spewing hatred and racist-fueled myths against minorities of all types. A trail of online radicalization and warning signs that reached the FBI and local police months beforehand. A Nazi insignia left at the crime scene. And a live streaming of the attack for some of the shooters’ followers to watch.

Shocking as it was, the attack – which killed three people on May 18 at the Islamic Center of San Diego, including a Muslim security guard whose heroism likely saved 140 children sent into lockdown at the center's school – was no isolated episode.

And as USA TODAY reported June 3, a major White supremacist group called Patriot Front has been adding hundreds of members across 49 states in the past two years.

Hate crimes are now so routine that they don't even get much attention

Hate crimes in America have been soaring for the past decade to record levels, according to FBI data, and the attacks carried out by avowed neo-Nazis are the tip of the spear, representing almost all of the deadliest hate crimes in that time ‒ from a gay night club in Colorado Springs, to a predominantly Black grocery store in Buffalo, New York, to the Tree........

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