QOTD -- The Person Most Responsible

 

"... I know we’re inured to Trump’s daily malevolence but the president of the United States responding to an apparent act of political violence by blaming his political opponents is such a fundamental degradation of our national politics. I can’t imagine any other president delivering a speech as despicable and deranged as the one delivered by Trump last night.

"But it’s also a reminder that no single political figure has done more to foment, condone and sanction political violence and instability in America than Trump. This is the guy, after all, who incited a crowd to storm the Capitol on January 6 -- and then pardoned more than 1,500 people responsible for the violence that took place that day.

"That action alone is bad enough. But Trump has also spent the past ten years spreading deeply divisive political rhetoric and making one delegitimizing attack on the left after another. Trump has called his political opponents 'vermin.' He has labeled Democrats 'Marxists,' 'Communists,' and 'Socialists”'and has said Democrats are 'destroying the country' and 'hate America.'  [snip]

"And just last week, he tweeted a meme that shows military helicopters over the city of Chicago and warns he will sic the Department of War on the nation’s third largest city..." -- former Boston Globe op/ ed writer Michael A. Cohen, on "The Person Most Responsible for Fomenting Political Violence in America is Donald Trump," in his "Truth or Consequences" Substack on Thursday.  This isn't "pointing fingers";  it's pointing out the obvious.