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Michelle's avatar

I really like this piece and obviously I don’t disagree with the findings which are objectively true. I don’t think that most Americans support violence, but I also feel like we’re not addressing an issue. These random acts of politically motivated violence have historically been more likely to be committed by racially motivated, violent extremists of the white supremacist variety. The FBI, DHS, and DOJ have known for decades that white supremacists are our biggest domestic terrorist threat. So are we gonna keep ignoring the root cause of the majority of these politically motivated violent acts so that we can claim bipartisanship? It’s not working.

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John Petersen's avatar

We would be well served if the proverb "measure twice, cut once" was updated to "research twice, post once". Thanks again for drawing from a rich set of information in framing views of political violence. Now if we could just get a larger group doing more thinking and less posting ....

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