"The Scalise shooting was different," they say, without really explaining why.

Several members of congress were almost summarily executed in a public act of terrorism.

The story went away in a few hours.

In 2017, there were no calls to determine who radicalized the shooter.

Political violence began in earnest in 2015, at the San Jose Trump rally. A Chicago rally was shut down by rioters.

There was no media interest in examining who radicalized these people, who organized did, whose rhetoric incited this.

Did all of the "Political Science" majors in media and politics sleep through social contract theory?

Society is a collective agreement among people - held together by norms.

A nation of laws, and a nation of norms.

Every norm was destroyed, and you can't just blame Trump.