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So, when Trump taunts rallygoers and television audiences with hot rhetoric that predicts, “you won’t have a country anymore,” and calls Kamala Harris a fascist and a Marxist, it is no small wonder that bullets might start flying, either toward Trump or toward his political opponents. Not surprisingly, support for violence follows when irresponsible rhetoric begins to permeate political campaigning.

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Hal is right. “The Trumpian drift of much of the American power structure should be of real concern to those who cherish democracy here in the United States.” So, what should we do? The question is whether a big enough Harris victory in both the popular vote and the electoral college can avert Trump-inspired violence as on January 6, 2021. With all due respect to classic business conservatives who normally vote Republican, the situation this year requires a vote for Harris. Abstaining is not enough. Any vote not for Harris is a vote for Trump and increases the risk of violence.

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For those unencumbered by Trump-Derangement Syndrome, here is today's adult dosage of James H. Kunstler, https://jameshowardkunstler.substack.com/p/wheezing-past-the-graveyard.

As for "election interference," two assassination attempts are pretty much at the top of that particular pyramid, unacknowledged here - let alone denounced - but fueled by such "irresponsible rhetoric" as comparisons to Hitler, warnings of "existential threat" to America, "Trump must be stopped," etc.

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