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Count us among the people calling for a cooling of our political rhetoric. We’ve written numerous editorials over the years decrying divisive and threatening rhetoric. We’ve decried political violence .

As Gov. Janet Mills said recently we must “learn to disagree better.” As Rep. Nathan Wadsworth, a Republican from Hiram, said last week: we must reclaim “the ability to disagree without hate and to listen with respect even when our views differ.”

Such sentiments gained urgency after the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk earlier this month. Many of Kirk’s v

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