"Different rules apply. After an act of violence, Democrats must be gracious, empathetic and call for calm on all sides, while Republicans can mock the victims, blame only one side and demand more violence. And there's a further asymmetry: a single post from a random, anonymous user online will be treated as a statement from 'the left', while the outpourings of the right's most powerful voices, in politics or the media, and including the president himself, somehow get a free pass."
Jonathan Freedland at The Guardian writes that "[t]he US is on the brink of another era of political violence–and Donald Trump 'couldn't care less.'"
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