I was here with you until your closing line: "American presidents have previously been victims of violence but never before its instigators."
This ignores nearly our entire history. I have no interest in getting into who did what when, but choosing just one, undisputed example of State-Sponsored Terror from a Federal level -- Jackson's Trail of Tears -- seems to disprove this point. This isn't to say that Trump isn't a unique cancer within the American experiment, but this sentence diminishes your argument.
I was here with you until your closing line: "American presidents have previously been victims of violence but never before its instigators."
This ignores nearly our entire history. I have no interest in getting into who did what when, but choosing just one, undisputed example of State-Sponsored Terror from a Federal level -- Jackson's Trail of Tears -- seems to disprove this point. This isn't to say that Trump isn't a unique cancer within the American experiment, but this sentence diminishes your argument.