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Trump 'sets the temperature' for political violence: analysis
The Language That Makes Violence Seem NormalPower Was in the Mouth FirstThe source story is about the murder of Melissa Hortman and her husband, but its real subject is the machinery that made that murder feel thinkable. The killer pulled the trigger. Donald Trump, according to the piece, supplied the political atmosphere in which opponents are cast as “enemies,” “vermin,” and “traitors.” That is not incidental heat. It is institutional permission delivered in public.This is where blame belongs: not on the people later shocked by the violence, and not on the dead for having been targets, but…
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