Are you saying Trump caused a Rubio fundraiser to be assaulted in a Democratic neighborhood? Or that Trump was responsible for the shooter than shot Steve Scalise. How about the increased assaults on old ladies and people at subways? That does not make sense.

What does make sense is the various studies that correlate increasing violence with "justice reform" and defunding the police, and the unwillingness of the police to intervene in violent protests and riots. A general breakdown in law and order directly correlates with an increase in violent crimes and assaults.

People that think they can take cover behind their gated communities, while the poor get ravaged by the failure of law enforcement and the justice system to keep violent people off the streets are deluding themselves. The guy that ran the children over in the Wisconsin parade should have been in prison.

I am all for making the punishment fit the crime and I recognize that in the past we often dealt with POCs more harshly than others and that we sentenced non-violent people to incarceration where they turned into hardened criminals.

But swinging to the other extreme is not the answer. The increase violence has nothing to do with Trump and MAGA... it exists in communities where people don't even know what MAGA is.

I make this point, because we are not going to solve the violence problem by pretending Trump is behind it, but rather confronting it and reestablishing that we are a nation of laws, and we won't tolerate violence regardless of how justified someone thinks they are to commit it or even if we feel some sympathy behind why someone resorted to it.