How Trump’s Thuggish Style Incites and Rationalizes VIolence

The following article by Jeffrey Morley was posted on the AlterNet website May 26, 2017:

America’s new normal:  attacks on reporters and demonstrators exercising their free speech rights.

President Trump listens as he and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg participate in a news conference in the East Room of the White House on April 12 . (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)

The president of the United States sets a tone, an example, a style. With Donald Trump, that tone conveys a suffused rage and a violent intolerance that equates questions with insults and disagreement with disloyalty. It is a style that openly sanctions assault on those who dare to dissent.

Gianforte, who won the seat, apologized, saying, “I made a mistake.” His defenders showed no such decency. Continue reading “How Trump’s Thuggish Style Incites and Rationalizes VIolence”