Click here for an article at Substack by Steven Beschloss entitled "Snapshot: Trump’s Speech Escalates the Conflict," subtitled "No, his Oval Office remarks were not a surprise, but they are a tragedy for a country on edge."
While every Democratic leader I've seen so far has denounced the murder of Charlie Kirk and urged restraint, I've seen lots of Republican leaders -- off the top of my head, Jesse Waters, Steve Bannon, Laura Loomer -- Elon Musk said "The Left is the party of murder" -- James Woods, Alex Jones, Andrew Tate, and now Donald Trump -- issuing calls to go to war.
Beschloss's article begins:
Do we need calm and peace and unity? Yes, we do. But over 77 million Americans chose to give the nation’s loudest megaphone to a man dedicated to sowing conflict, stoking fear and intensifying a climate of violence.
He went on:
While he stated grief for Kirk’s death, he used the moment to spew anger over demonizing language by the media and others on the left for inciting the act. He had no words for—no interest in acknowledging—the impact his own rhetoric and that of other right-wing extremists has likely had in triggering the assassination of Minnesota’s Democratic state lawmaker Melissa Hartmann and her husband, as well as the assault on the life of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband.
Beschloss comments:
As much as I wish it were otherwise, I honestly don’t see right now how the country can stand down from this intensifying situation. The pot is boiling, the cook is pouring in more and more poison, and his fans are cheering him on to go farther.
As much as cooler, more rational voices—primarily among Democrats—have urged calm and respect for the tragedy of a young man’s life being taken from him and his family by a gunman’s bullet, Trump and his regime want the fight, even if it leads to more bloodshed.
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