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Could Trump’s Hate-Baiting Lead to Another Kent State?

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Donald Trump 2016: How Trump’s Hate-Baiting Could Lead to Another Kent State - POLITICO Magazine
Donald Trump is now openly inciting violence at his rallies. In Kansas City, he mouthed the words, “I’ll beat the crap out of you,” when describing what he would have done to a protester who charged him in Dayton, Ohio, earlier in the day. “Boom, boom, boom,” he said, mimicking a schoolyard beat down with his fists.
“Part of the problem is … nobody wants to hurt each other anymore,” he yelled at protesters in St. Louis who were being physically ejected from his event. “The audience hit back,” he said earlier at a news conference in Florida, “that’s what we need a little bit more of.”
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As Trump grandstanded, agitating the crowd, encouraging and condoning physical attacks against protesters, his supporters cheered.
It was an alarming development in this bizarre and unpredictable campaign for the presidency. Presidential words carry real, sometimes severe consequences, and to hear a candidate for the office so glibly stirring up violence is nothing short of startling.
One begins to wonder if a wide swath of American voters have no historical memory at all. If people today think that Trump’s agitation is appropriate, or as he puts it, basically harmless, then they were not alive during the Nixon administration in 1970, when exactly this sort of reckless political hate-mongering held America in its awful grip—and even took a deadly turn.


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David_N said:
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Donald Trump 2016: How Trump’s Hate-Baiting Could Lead to Another Kent State - POLITICO Magazine
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More startling is how freaked out the left, and the very far left, is over voters showing they've had enough of the BS they have been forced to swallow for years. This crap from the likes of this liberal lawyer, James Robenalt, is just more evidence of that. Send in the goons to protest Trump, and then blame Trump for what happens next.

Sorry kids, it would appear the voters know what is going on. Best to quiet your troops before voters reach a permanent voting conclusion about this game the left is playing.
 
David_N said:
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Donald Trump 2016: How Trump’s Hate-Baiting Could Lead to Another Kent State - POLITICO Magazine
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When Obama used the same sort of language there was none of this wringing of hands.

“Argue with neighbors, get in their faces… If you get hit, we will punch back twice as hard… I don’t want to quell anger. I think people are right to be angry. I’m angry…If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun. Because from what I understand folks in Philly like a good brawl. I’ve seen Eagles fans.”
 
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