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A lawmaker and her husband were murdered. A senator and his wife nearly killed. The suspect had a hit list. And what did we do? We blamed each other. We justified. We spun. Political violence isn’t coming—it’s here. And we’re normalizing it. adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/political-...

Tell me a time in American history when there was no political violence. 60’s assassinations 70’s Weather Underground 80’s John Hinkley 90’s Waco, Ruby Ridge, Timothy McVeigh, Unabomber 2000’s 9/11 2010’s too many to list 2020’s Jan. 6 and lots of other stuff

Also, all violence against Black people is political because American racism has always been a driving force on one side of the aisle or the other.

School shooters usually have a political motive so school shootings are political violence.

Drug violence is political because it’s the result of the “war on drugs” which we learned from John Ehrlichman before he died was all about using drugs as a cudgel against leftists and Black people.

Oh, and who decided to invade Vietnam and Iraq, to name just two of our disastrous immoral wars? Politicians. Presidents. Lawmakers.