US Rep. Gabby Giffords of Arizona was shot 9 years ago today. I wrote shortly afterward 1/x

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/01/10/frum.political.killings/index.html
But I warned in 2011, this anti-violence taboo was being corroded by leading right-wing voices - who were providing advance justification for political violence. 2/x http://edition.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/01/10/frum.political.killings/index.html
President Trump relocated the permissions office for right-wing political violence from TV and radio to the West Wing. Pro-Trump talkers argue that most Trump supporters would never themselves engage in violence. Of course that's true. 3/x https://twitter.com/DavidBrodyCBN/status/1347168885045424130
But Trump himself has again and again *urged* political violence as a tool of power, culminating in Trump's incitement of the January 6 attack on Congress. To support Trump was, at a minimum, permission to *him* to continue to foment political violence for his own ends. 4/x
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