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I am amazed to find myself defending Trump, but this really is a bit much, this organized chorus of "he brought it on himself". On the one hand you have occasional exhortations to defend oneself - So if you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of ‘em, would you? - and a 78-year-old man who threw a punch he shouldn't have, was NOT urged to do so by Trump or anyone else speaking at the occasion, and has been arrested for it. On the other hand, you have a deliberately planned act of mob violence organized by self-proclaimed revolutionaries who are now crowing publicly about shutting down a speaker they don't like.

These are not the same thing. They are not even close to the same thing, and pretending otherwise because it favors a political candidate is not an act of respect for the truth. What we have on the one hand is a few intemperate words; what we have on the other is an act of violent political warfare. Those are the facts, and shading them isn't going to help. And using vague accusations such as "creating an atmosphere" is the act of a coward and a liar.

Not the same thing, just the same: “It is ludicrous to argue that, because the hard Left is primarily responsible for the outbreak of chaos and violence that caused Donald Trump’s Chicago rally to be canceled last night, it is wrong to condemn the thuggery Trump often encourages at his appearances.”