'A perfect storm': Extremism online and political polarization are increasing risk of attacks, experts say

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

37% : "With President Trump coming back into power, terrorism professionals and experts expect that we're going to see a slower burn, but an emergence of more of a radical left," said the Soufan Group's O'Leary.
34% : Occasionally, it's far-left or anti-Trump, as in the 2017 attack on Republican members of Congress and staffers at a baseball practice outside Washington and the apparent assassination attempt of Trump in Florida last year, or at other times a mix of ideologies, what FBI Director Christopher Wray has called "salad bar extremism.
24% : "If President Trump would have lost, I think we would have had immediate political violence.
5% : Ryan Routh, the man charged in connection with the apparent attempt to assassinate Trump in Florida this fall, was allegedly angry at Trump over his policy toward Iran and Ukraine.

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