But Joe Biden's pleas for citizens to unite in purging White supremacy, which he warned on Tuesday was poisoning the nation, were quickly undermined by a backlash from conservative media stars who accused him of exploiting the murder of 10 Black Americans in Buffalo by a right-wing extremist.

The disconnect reflected how the aching polarization and tribalism of the country's politics preclude any hope of common ground, even after the horror that unfolded in a supermarket in the western New York city on Saturday. Far from bringing America together, every successive tragedy appears to pull it further apart.

Biden traveled to Buffalo to mourn with the relatives of those killed by a gunman who allegedly drove 200 miles to massacre them while wallowing in a self-described stew of self-radicalization, racism and fascism.

In a striking address, the President drew a line between racist massacres of Black, Hispanic and Jewish Americans in Charleston, South Carolina, El Paso, Texas, and Pittsburgh to spell out what is now awfully obvious. The United States faces a significant scourge of White supremacist extremism that erupts periodically and results in the mass, racially motivated murder of innocent people. The bile is being exacerbated by online propaganda and conspiracies that White Americans could be replaced by a tide of immigration. Such claims are often legitimized on conservative media and have been hinted at by some GOP politicians.

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