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(CNN)When Donald Trump ran for president, one of the core pillars of his pitch to the voting public was this: Political correctness is a cancer eating away at the body politic. "And this political correctness is just absolutely killing us as a country. There were a total of 1,986 anti-Semitic incidents reported in the US in 2017; in 2016 that number was 1,267. That's why we voted for Donald Trump, because he said he's going to take our country back." (Trump initially claimed he didn't know who Duke was during the 2016 campaign and therefore could not disavow him. Get out and vote Republican November 6th. Aside from the obvious appeals by politicians and other leaders to anti-Semitic sentiments, there is a whole other class of speech that has turned incivility into some sort of rallying cry for their respective party bases. "You cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for, what you care about. The rise of social media -- and the weak policing of hate speech on those platforms -- has allowed people with intolerant views to connect with others who see world in a similarly twisted way, and to amplify those views. And that, because it worked (and works) for him politically, he will continue to help lower the standards of political dialogue and provide further cover for the rise of hate speech in the mainstream.

The mother of Heather Heyer, who was killed by a white supremacist at a rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017, speaks out on the anniversary of her daughter's death.

Charlottesville car attack suspect facing more than two-dozen federal hate-crime charges. FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering breaking news as well as political and business news. The number one network in cable, FNC…