I think it is safe to say that Trump inspires more violence than any other presidential candidate since George Wallace. That's not my personal experience though, even though it is logical to see how violence surrounding Trumps rally's could likely only increase as we near November and continue afterwards if he was actually elected president and get much worse with him in office. This is one of many reasons why if Trump becomes president our democracy could actually collapse in response and be gone forever. His effect as a president might be a little like a Hitler in how the people would respond to him both in the U.S. and all around the world. He is the single most divisive candidate in my lifetime to be nominated as president by any party. However, he hasn't been nominated at the Republican Convention yet (there is still a chance that Republicans won't want to destroy their party forever by nominating him.) So, this might still be amazing to watch the next 6 months or so too. Everyone is holding their breath of all parties right now. IN fact, everyone is holding their breath around the world too regarding the survival of life on earth long term because of this election.
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writer for the Huffington Post is defending his recent op-ed that "a
violent response” is the “logical” approach to stopping presumptive
Republican nominee Donald Trump. Jesse Benn …
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Huffington Post writer calls violence 'logical' response to Trump
Now Playing Journalist describes bloody attack at Trump rally
Jesse Benn wrote in the op-ed titled “Sorry Liberals, A Violent Response To Trump Is As Logical As Any,” posted on Monday, “[T]here’s an inherent value in forestalling Trump’s normalization. Violent resistance accomplishes this.”
"These denunciations of violence from anti-Trump protestors rest on the misguided view that the divide Trump’s exposed is a typical political disagreement between partisans, and should be handled as such.," he wrote. "This couldn’t be further from the truth. Trump might not be a fascist in the 20th century European sense of the term—though many of his supporters are—but he might represent its 21st century US version."
"Violent resistance matters. Riots can lead to major change," Benn wrote. "It’s not liberal politicians or masses that historians identify as the spark underlying the modern movement for LGBTQ equality. Nor was it a think piece from some smarmy liberal writer. It was the people who took to the streets during the Stonewall Uprising."
"Assuming anti-Trump protests should be strictly focused on electoral politics and not these broader goals would be a detrimental oversight," he wrote. "Understanding European anti-fascists use of violent tactics to shut down large rallies from White Supremacists can be illustrative here. Because while Trump isn’t leading full bore White Supremacist rallies, there is value in making it clear that even his fascism-lite has no place in civilized society."
Benn took to Twitter to defend his piece.
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