The mass shootings continued this weekend in Dayton, Ohio and El Paso, Texas. The death toll already stands at 29 people with dozens of others injured by gunshot. So it goes.

On June 22, 2019, the senior senator from Texas sent out a tweet that looks merely factual, but was actually intended as an alarm bell for the Republican Party and their white supporters in Texas.

The Texas Tribune article John Cornyn cited says, “New census estimates show Texas’ Hispanic population growth continues to surpass white population growth, with Hispanics on pace to soon represent a plurality.”

The shooter in El Paso apparently decided to begin a genocide as a preventative measure.

El Paso Sheriff Richard Wiles, who oversees the jail holding the suspect, called the attack racist in a Facebook post Saturday night.

“This Anglo man came here to kill Hispanics,” he wrote. “I’m outraged and you should be too. This entire nation should be outraged. In this day and age, with all the serious issues we face, we are still confronted with people who will kill another for the sole reason of the color of their skin.”

Here’s a little more on the manifesto this lunatic allegedly posted immediately before going on a Wal-Mart killing spree:

Nineteen minutes before the first 911 call alerted the authorities to a mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Tex., a hate-filled, anti-immigrant manifesto appeared online.

It spoke of a “Hispanic invasion of Texas.” It detailed a plan to separate America into territories by race. It warned that white people were being replaced by foreigners.

The authorities were scrutinizing the 2,300-word screed on Saturday and attempting to determine whether it was written by the same man who killed 20 people and injured more than two dozen others near the Mexican border.

Police officers were interviewing the suspect, Patrick Crusius, a 21-year-old white man from Allen, Tex., a roughly 10-hour drive to the Walmart. What brought him to a crowded shopping center in El Paso is one of the many questions on the minds of investigators.

The manifesto that may be linked to Mr. Crusius described an imminent attack and railed against immigrants, saying, “if we can get rid of enough people, then our way of life can be more sustainable.”

As President Trump noted after the 2017 murder in Charlottesville, Virginia, there are many fine people on both sides. I am sure he will be pressured into saying something critical of this shooter’s world view. And then a day or two after that he will argue that the man wouldn’t have needed to start the genocide if his stupid wall had been funded by Congress.

So it goes.