The issue, rather, is what picture of ā€œpolitical violenceā€ this messaging serves: To say that ā€œpolitical violenceā€ has ā€œno placeā€ in a society organized by political violence at home and abroad is to acquiesce to the normalization of that violence, so long as it is state and capitalist monopolized.

As author Ben Ehrenreich noted on X, ā€œThere is no place for political violence against rich, white men. It is antithetical to everything America stands for.ā€

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    ā€œdemocratic politiciansā€, ā€œperson who incited attack on the capitol because he lost the electionā€ and ā€œone of usā€ canā€™t be in the same sentence.

    it is imho simply the case that they canā€™t publicly say ā€œoh fuck, so close, why did that moron miss?ā€

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      No I think even in private they donā€™t want Trump assassinated unless theyre not thinking this through. Cause if assassinations of politicians become more normalized or are shown as successful or called for by certain sides then that just makes the jobs of politicians on both sides more dangerous. Even if theyā€™d be happy if he dropped dead him getting killed in an assassination just makes the target on them bigger as well as people would see they can work as a way to get rid of politicians they donā€™t like.