Take far-right radicalism more seriously

So runs the argument by Mike German, a fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University.

Treating far-right violence as a purely domestic issue deprioritizes these crimes on the national security agenda. It also ignores the international reach of militant white supremacist groups, and obscures the greater threat posed when governments become enthralled with exclusionary nationalism, which mobilizes popular support by stigmatizing groups of "others" -- often identified by race, religion or ethnicity -- as national enemies.

German calls on the federal Justice Department and intelligence agencies "to start taking far-right violence more seriously -- in order to avoid another century of brutal conflict".

That's all well and good, but as the history of the civil rights movement shows, you can't legislate or jail your way to utopia. At some point somebody will have to figure out a way to end the cycle of propagation of the many twisted, toxic ideas embedded in white nationalism, anti-Semitism and all the other odious bigotries now proudly asserting themselves under our deeply prejudiced domestic Dear Leader.

How, in other words, do we keep such bigotry and hatred from claiming hearts and minds?