Trump a mass of contradictions regarding civil discourse

The classic example of chutzpah is that of the child who murders his parents and then pleads for mercy as an orphan. With the 2024 presidential election, we have a new way to illustrate the point: the candidate who condones violence, dehumanizes his opponents and whips his supporters into a frenzy, then turns around to condemn the harsh rhetoric of his opponents and call for peaceful discourse.

Following the second attempt on his life in two months, Trump blamed Democrats for casting him as a threat to American democracy.

“Look,” his running mate J.D. Vance said on Monday, “we can disagree with one another, we can debate one another, but we cannot tell the American people that one candidate is a fascist and, if he’s elected, it is going to be the end of American democracy.” (It should be noted that Vance has said, repeatedly, that he would have helped the former president in his attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election.)

Trump himself was more direct. “Their rhetoric is causing me to be shot at, when I am the one who is going to save the country,” he said in an interview with Fox News.

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