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Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH), who told MSNBC on Tuesday that Americans needed to “kill and confront” the so-called “MAGA Republicans,” blamed then-President Donald Trump’s rhetoric for inciting the mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, in 2019.

I agree with Douglas Murray: in twenty years’ time we’re going to look back on this era as an age of insanity and wonder how it was that so many people could possibly have been so stupid. Our political class especially.

The U.S. Catholic bishops issued a statement Thursday calling all Americans to a “change in language and rhetoric,” insisting that hateful language “can become the motivation for some to commit acts of violence.”

President Donald Trump said Monday, on the eve of the 2018 midterm elections, that he looked forward to a “softer tone” after Tuesday — regardless of who won.

New Yorker editor David Remnick has weighed in on the debate about who’s really behind the tension and violence racking the U.S. right now.

Waters’s rabid extremism and recent calls for pseudo-violence, pose a concrete threat to public safety personnel and others who serve the public in her own high-crime congressional district, and elsewhere across the country.

To turn his low approval numbers around, in Alabama and elsewhere, Trump will likely need to “pivot” — that is, if he wants to be re-elected (and he may, some speculate, be satisfied with one term). The question is what that pivot will be, and when it will happen.

White House Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders defended President Donald Trump’s tweet against MSNBC Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski on Thursday: “The American people elected a fighter,” she said.

Some leftists are so angry at California State Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon (D-Paramount) for blocking a vote on a single-payer, government-run health care plan that they have been sending him death threats for days.

Democrats have settled on a grisly theme in their attacks on the Republicans’ new legislation to repeal and replace Obamacare: death.

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) told a Fresno, California, radio station on Monday that the shooting that wounded House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) and three others was “almost predictable” given the state of political rhetoric in the mainstream media and on the left.

The liberal left tries to blame Jo Cox killing in ‘tone’ in order to limit their opponents’ free speech and campaigning.

Donald Trump is down big in the polls — after a week that ought to have lifted his presidential prospects. First, the Orlando terror attack proved his warnings about Islamic terror to be correct, sadly. Then, Hillary Clinton — whom he

Planned Parenthood wants a National Day of #Solidarity on Saturday, December 5, and what it calls an “end to the inflammatory rhetoric that has vilified and fueled attacks not only against Planned Parenthood and abortion providers, but also against the black community, immigrants, refugees, and the transgender community.”

On the November 29 airing of Face the Nation, Republican presidential hopeful Dr. Ben Carson suggested the Planned Parenthood shooting shows that pro-lifers should “tone down their rhetoric.”

The escalation of anti-white and anti-cop rhetoric has been building since militant black activists began marching in support of #BlackLivesMatter after the suicide of Sandra Bland. At protests at the jail where Bland killed herself, a radical activist called for all white people to be killed, and heavily armed members of the New Black Panther Party chanted “the revolution has started … off the pigs.” A Texas-based internet radio show called for the lynching of whites and the killing of police officers. This week, two white journalists and a white deputy sheriff have been assassinated by blacks who appear to be carrying out the message of hate. Harris County Sheriff Ron Hickman said, “This rhetoric has gotten out of control …”

Recently, President Barack Obama declared that “climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security, an immediate risk to our national security.” So, when does the war begin?