[officemonkey]

Many groups radicalize "lone wolves" precisely to do the things that they want done, but want to keep their hands clean.

You saw this particularly during the 90s, when people were radicalized to attack and kill abortion doctors. It was rarely called terrorism, but the tactics were the same.

The folks who sent hoax anthrax packages to Planned Parenthood offices where mostly lone actors, picking up on their group's radicalizing messages.

One could also say Eric Rudolph and Timothy McVeigh were "lone wolves" in that they believed the radicalizing talk, but acted essentially alone.

[leereeves]

Is there any evidence this attack was planned or inspired by an ideology, rather than simply an act of rage or fear?

[officemonkey]

If you're an avowed Hitler fan at a #UniteTheRight alt-right rally, and you drive multiple blocks at high speed into a crowd of people, and then drive multiple blocks in reverse at a similar rate of speed in order to evade capture, I think there's enough room to indict.

[ygaf]

If that's what the driver did, I'm sorry for my ignorance (different poster).