This is a huge country, so there are always a lot of incidents. It's a heavily armed country too, so incidents are more likely to lead to life-threatening harm. But it's also true that the Trump campaign valorizes violence unlike any other since the George Wallace campaigns.
Trump's never going to tell his followers to cool it.

But there are plenty of other Republican leaders who should be able to send the message that Joe Biden has sent to violent actors on the left: we condemn and repudiate what you do.

Speak now, your country needs it from you
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