Let’s get something straight. The press
and many of our leaders have converged upon an implicit consensus that last Wednesday should be understood as the nadir of the Trump era—as a tipping
point illustrating, for either the first or the most significant time, the
deadly potential of his antics and rhetoric. They are wrong. In October 2018, a
gunman animated by theories about migrant caravans which the president had promoted walked into a Pittsburgh synagogue and killed 11 people. Less than a
year later, a gunman raging about an immigrant takeover of the country killed
23 in El Paso. The attack on the Capitol
was a remarkable …read more
Source:: The New Republic
