- Part and parcel of the key role of illegal immigration is the general lawlessness in the nation embodied in cities and states thumbing their noses at the federal government with such things as sanctuary cities. The unwillingness or inability of Donald Trump's administration so far to deal with this has contributed to the general climate of violence not his rhetoric. Rather, there still seems a sense that lawbreakers at the highest level on down to the city council can get away with ignoring the law.
- This is certainly a recurring theme of the left, that it is the Trump era (meaning, Because Trump doesn't let us beat on him without responding, he is causing these acts of violence. In fact, America has gone through many similar periods.
- The modern dominant media, combined with polling organizations that lie to people about what people really think, in 2016 created an utterly false view of the political landscape that left liberals completely unmoored.
- Told repeatedly that Hillary Clinton absolutely could not lose, the meda-polling complex built an alternative reality that, when shattered, convinced tens of thousands of people (including most elites) that someone had stolen the election.
- The dishonest press existed in the north, but despite the Lincoln-was-a-tyrant claims, even in the middle of the war one could routinely find criticism from the left of the war effort, and Copperhead newspapers abounded.
- *Two years later, the same murderer responsible for the Pottawatomie Massacre, John Brown, staged a raid on Harper's Ferry to acquire the ante-bellum version of Weapons of Mass Destruction and arm slaves for a revolt.
- (It almost certainly was in smaller towns too, except the news rarely reported it.) One historian of American Mobbing tied almost all of the lynchings (both North and South) and violent incidents to slavery either for or against.
https://bigleaguepolitics.com/history-how-a-dishonest-press-stokes-americas-simmering-political-violence/
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