Donald Trump’s Heated Words Were Destined to Stir Violence, Opponents Say

[Rob L 3,811]

Donald Trumps Heated Words Were Destined to Stir Violence, Opponents Say

Donald Trumps Heated Words Were Destined to Stir Violence, Opponents SayDonald Trumps Heated Words Were Destined to Stir Violence, Opponents

Trump supporters, left, and protesters confronted one another at a campaign event in Chicago on Friday.

Joshua Lott for The New York Times

Presidential campaigns have long flirted with the lexicon of violence, as candidates vow to take the country back from the opposing party in the White House and reclaim an endangered vision of America.

But this years campaign has distinguished itself by the sheer volume of heated words, led primarily by Mr. Trump, and by actual scenes of physical confrontation.

Now both Republican and Democratic leaders are predicting a long, grim and pugnacious phase of the presidential race.

Ive gotta believe its only gonna get worse, said William M. Daley, the son of Chicagos famed mayor, Richard Daley, who presided over the violent 1968 Democratic convention. Both sides are fueling this, he added.

Behind the showdowns is a climate of frustration and fright not seen since the 1960s, or even the 1850s when, in the words of Joanne Freeman, a Yale historian who has studied violence in American politics, each side was convinced that the other side was about to destroy America or what they believed to be the fundamental essence of America and each side totally alienated the other side.

In Chicago on Friday, such a determination seemed very much in evidence.

Michael Joseph Garza, a 27-year-old employee of a Chicago logistics company who is part Mexican and part Italian, had read about the Trump rally on Facebook and, after discussing his candidacy with his wife, felt compelled to protest it to make a point about immigration and tolerance.

Even if Trump just ruins this country for four years, I cant go to my children and say I did nothing to try to stop him, Mr. Garza said.

It is the kind of deep-seated mistrust and alarm over an unspeakably bleak future that is also expressed by supporters of Mr. Trump like Denise Rubino, 50, a bartender from Concord, N.C.

She worries that an America without Mr. Trump at its helm would be a disaster and despairs that his enemies within the Republican Party will try to seize the nomination from him, as many have pledged to try.

Should that happen, Ms. Rubino said, his voters might not hold back. I think theyre going to uprise, she said. Because thats undermining the political process.

In a testament to how vitriolic the campaign has become, a wide range of figures have pleaded for a lowering of the political temperature and the heated messages, warning that it would produce physical altercations, or worse.

Mr. Trumps own team seems highly attuned to the possibility.

On Saturday, in a rally at an airplane hangar near Dayton, not long after he had mocked a protester being escorted out Go back to mommy, he said a man jumped a security barrier and rushed toward the stage.

Mr. Trump ducked his head, grabbing his podium with both hands before backing away.

One of Mr. Trumps personal security guards, who has worked for him for years, was the first to jump on stage. Three other men who appeared to be Secret Service agents leapt on stage, and all formed a ring around Mr. Trump, while other security grabbed the man, tackled him and then escorted him away.

Christine Todd Whitman, the former Republican governor of New Jersey and a cabinet member in the administration of George W. Bush, said she has long feared the fury that Mr. Trumps words could arouse in his supporters and detractors alike.

You cant dial back the emotions hes excited in people easily, she said in an interview. There will be consequences for that.

She recalled Mr. Trumps provocative remarks about Mexicans last year. If you were told that Mexicans are rapists or criminals and you make assumptions and you are walking down the street and see them in your community, she said, trailing off. People are go iiim Ng to do things http://mobile.nytimes.com/images/100000004268310/2016/03/13/us/politics/donald-trumps-heated-words-were-destined-to-stir-violence-opponents-say.html

[eieio 1,594]

In an ironic twist…now the cable news network are providing live converge for Trumps rallies. Even more people will understand what kind of low-lifes are disrupting free speech.

[lostinblue 1,989]

[ready4ONE 5,400]

Donald Trump is the embodiment of the scourge of ODS. His words are indeed the source of the anger exibited by his supporters and detractors alike.

[ExPatty 502]

Heated words are a good thing. Many Americans, of both parties, are upset at how things are going, and realize the dishonesty and lack of potency behind endless platitudes. We need heated words. They are often lies, but platitudes are always lies.

As for a lexicon of violence, who's executing the most violence so far? Pro or anti Trump supporters? Trump says things some people don't like, those people get violent, and we are to blame the person talking, not the ones attempting to inflict physical harm over expression of the 1st amendment.

If you don't like what he says, ignore him. If you want to actively stop him, do so at the ballet box. If his opposition think he will be muzzled by crashing event after event, they are probably just increasing his support.

[lostinblue 1,989]

Imagine if a bunch of violent Trump fans had disrupted a Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton event. They would be called fascists, and the condemnation would be global. Politicians across the world would issue statements expressing concern. When the same thing happens to a Trump rally, however, the reaction is strangely mute..

[ExPatty 502]

Imagine if a bunch of violent Trump fans had disrupted a Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton event. They would be called fascists, and the condemnation would be global. Politicians across the world would issue statements expressing concern. When the same thing happens to a Trump rally, however, the reaction is strangely mute..

Trump Storm Troopers Mob Sanders Rally: Force Cancellation

By Clarice Feldman

Of course, this didn’t happen. The opposite is true, but you can be sure that would be the headline had conservative opponents of Sanders prevented his rally in suburban Chicago from taking place because of mob threats of violence.

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CHICAGO, IL - Tonight one thousand peaceful communists, socialists, anarchists, Black Lives Matter activists, devout Muslims, immigration advocates with Mexican flags, and local students of Marxism, disrupted a meeting of some twenty five thousand angry and violent Trump supporters.

The Trump crowd had it coming because they had conspired to shut down everyone else's right to free speech by buying tickets to the event, which was closed to those who didn't have tickets. That was a grotesque violation of the protesters' right to get inside, jump on the podium, rip Trump signs, and scream "F** Trump" into a TV camera.

As the news of the event's cancellation was announced, the protesters peacefully celebrated their victory by throwing punches at Trump supporters and police officers, shouting over their objections, flipping the middle finger and kicking their cars, and walking into the road to block traffic composed of gas-guzzling, global-warming-causing vehicles.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/03/trump_storm_troopers_mob_sanders_rally_force_cancellation.html

[lostinblue 1,989]

[Rob L 3,811]

Heated words are a good thing. Many Americans, of both parties, are upset at how things are going, and realize the dishonesty and lack of potency behind endless platitudes. We need heated words. They are often lies, but platitudes are always lies.

As for a lexicon of violence, who's executing the most violence so far? Pro or anti Trump supporters? Trump says things some people don't like, those people get violent, and we are to blame the person talking, not the ones attempting to inflict physical harm over expression of the 1st amendment.

If you don't like what he says, ignore him. If you want to actively stop him, do so at the ballet box. If his opposition think he will be muzzled by crashing event after event, they are probably just increasing his support.

Heated words are a good thing. Many Americans, of both parties, are upset at how things are going, and realize the dishonesty and lack of potency behind endless platitudes. We need heated words. They are often lies, but platitudes are always lies.

Platitudes are not lies. Boring?useless? A waste of time? Probably. Are you looking for another word? When I see Donald's "heated words" I don't see passion, I see a man who is stirring hatred and strife on purpose, for his purposes. You will see his language modulate now that he has apparently gotten what he needs out of the Primary process, but he needs to be accountable for the words he has used so far, for what ever reason he put them out there. Accountability for what you say is a hallmark of a leader.

As for a lexicon of violence, who's executing the most violence so far? Pro or anti Trump supporters? Trump says things some people don't like, those people get violent, and we are to blame the person talking, not the ones attempting to inflict physical harm over expression of the 1st amendment.

There is violence in language and with fists on all sides. If the protesters were not at the rally there would not be fists. But the violence is not in the fists, it is in the vitriol and hatred that Trump uses in his language. This is not an accident on his part

If you don't like what he says, ignore him. If you want to actively stop him, do so at the ballet box. If his opposition think he will be muzzled by crashing event after event, they are probably just increasing his support.

No argument, the protesters are being duped by the Don. This is part of his plan.

[Dakine10 5,452]

Someone posted recently that we reap what we sow. I can't remember the exact thread, but the same applies here. When you sow the seeds of hate, you reap discord. The protesters cannot absolve themselves of their actions, neither can Trump and his supporters.

[Rob L 3,811]

Imagine if a bunch of violent Trump fans had disrupted a Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton event. They would be called fascists, and the condemnation would be global. Politicians across the world would issue statements expressing concern. When the same thing happens to a Trump rally, however, the reaction is strangely mute..

So its not fair?

[ready4ONE 5,400]

InfoWars! Gee Ward, you're being awfully hard on the Beaver.

Seriously though, I quite agree that the actions of the protesters at the Trump rally were reprehensible and not justified. However the Trump campaign is itself a disgusting and hate filled, completely non-Presidential bad joke that has gone on too long. Trump does support and exhort his followers to violence and has even offered to pay for legal fees if resorted to.

[Rob L 3,811]

Someone posted recently that we reap what we sow. I can't remember the exact thread, but the same applies here. When you sow the seeds of hate, you reap discord. The protesters cannot absolve themselves of their actions, neither can Trump and his supporters.

But don't you think that is exactly what the carefully selected language by Trump is intended to do? Discord is what is wanted.

It is back to the Tea Party idea that the entire structure of our society starting with Government, needs to be burned to the ground to save it.

[Dakine10 5,452]

But don't you think that is exactly what the carefully selected language by Trump is intended to do? Discord is what is wanted.

It is back to the Tea Party idea that the entire structure of our society starting with Government, needs to be burned to the ground to save it.

I've said before, as far as working the crowd, I think Trump know's exactly what he's doing and he's doing it well.

[Rob L 3,811]

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/03/trump_storm_troopers_mob_sanders_rally_force_cancellation.html

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/03/12/trump-violence/81686378/

All of the Republican candidates are condemning Trump — who could be unstoppable after Ohio and Florida vote Tuesday — saying his rhetoric set the stage for what happened in Chicago.

"Donald Trump has created a toxic environment," John Kasich said. "There is no place for a national leader to prey on the fears of people who live in our great country."

Sen. Ted Cruz, Trump's closest rival in the race, noted that "in any campaign, responsibility starts at the top."

"When the candidate urges supporters to engage in physical violence, to punch people in the face, the predictable consequence of that is that it escalates," Cruz told reporters Friday.

Marco Rubio said Donald Trump's rhetoric is feeding into people's anger and encouraging behavior that leads to violence — and he suggested he might not support the businessman if he clinches the nomination.

Rubio told reporters Saturday that he still wants to honor his pledge to support the Republican nominee, "but it's getting harder every day."

Later, during a rally at industrial park in Largo, Rubio told supporters of Trump: "If he is our nominee, this is what our party is going to be defined by."