The right wing quickly fabricated a narrative that the shooter is an anti-Trump Democrat.

The recent events in Orlando and Los Angeles reminded us that Islamist radicals and American right-wing extremists are indeed very closely related in their worldviews and general outlooks, as well in the authoritarian psychological profiles they attract. And eventually, that often works out to having the very same vulnerable people targeted for their violence.

Gavin Seim, the self-described “liberty speaker” who organized last month’s “We Will Not Comply” rally in Olympia, was arrested earlier this month for disrupting court proceedings.

The situation at the Bundy Ranch, where armed militiamen and “Patriots” are camped out, has deteriorated so badly that competing factions apparently drew weapons on one another during heated arguments.