20 Mar 2016 9:34 pm
"I’d like to punch him in the face."The Man the Founders Feared by Peter Wehner
“I THINK you’d have riots.” So said Donald J. Trump last week, when he was asked by CNN what he thought would happen if he arrived at the Republican Convention this summer a few delegates short of the 1,237 needed to win outright and didn’t set forth from Cleveland as the party’s nominee.
It is stunning to contemplate, particularly for those of us who are lifelong Republicans, but we now live in a time when the organizing principle that runs through the campaign of the Republican Party’s likely nominee isn’t adherence to a political philosophy — Mr. Trump has no discernible political philosophy — but an encouragement to political violence.
Mr. Trump’s supporters will dismiss this as hyperbole, but it is the only reasonable conclusion that his vivid, undisguised words allow for. As the examples pile up, we should not become inured to them.
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"In the old days,” protesters would be “carried out in a stretcher."
"Maybe he (a protester) should have been roughed up."
"Nobody wants to hurt each other anymore."
"There used to be consequences. (for protesters) There are none anymore."