You’re deploying hateful language! You’re encouraging political violence!

Now, please excuse me while I do the same thing.

Welcome to the new American berserk , to borrow Philip Roth’s memorable phrase. We’re going crazy by denouncing violent rhetoric by others, even as we engage in it ourselves.

Witness President Donald Trump’s statement after conservative activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated on Wednesday. “It’s long past time for all Americans and the media to confront the fact that violence and murder are the tragic consequence of demonizing those with whom you disagree day after day, year after year, in the most hateful and despicable way possible,” Trump said.

Then he went on to blame the “radical left” for Kirk’s murder, as well as for the attempt last year made on Tr

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