>" As reports of racist, anti-Semitic and Islamophobic harassment and attacks poured in after the election of Donald Trump, many Americans wondered whether they represented a nationwide increase in hate crime. "

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"Many Americans?"

Sounds like a couple of editors at the New York Times.

This is unadulterated anti-Trump hogwash.

As I've said here before, when I studied journalism the NY Times was the gold standard.
If I had ever submitted a paper containing claptrap like this, I'd have been thrown out of the class.