Brace yourself because for the rest of this week you’ll hear about nothing but the supposed “surge in right-wing extremist violence” or the “rise of violent white supremacists.”

True, a lunatic who feared immigrants (and automation and a corporate takeover of the federal government) did shoot up a Walmart in El Paso on Saturday, killing nearly two dozen people. But that’s no more a reason to panic about a nonexistent proliferation of violent white supremacy than a single plane crash is reason to ground all commercial air travel.