This is a feature of the Trump malAdministration, not a bug.
The Trump Effect™
The "Bully Pulpit’ at work. And I do mean “bully”!
FBI: Hate Crimes Rose For Second Straight Year In 2016
Thanks Obama! /s
What could have possibly caused this?
From the dead.
Hate crimes, murders, gun violence… these are symptoms of the collapse of religious institutions.
Conservatives are somewhat right in saying, “Guns don’t kill people.” They stop short, however of taking their own logic to its inevitable conclusion. If the fault is people, then we must look to the breakdown — the politicization — of religion and the systematic destruction of our educational institutions.
One of those is simply corrupted by money. The other is being starved by the military industrial complex.