American political violence falls on the doorstep now, with a deadly impact

The latest shootings in the role of legislators in Minnesota, which left two fateful people, are a “dark milestone” in the continuous history of American political violence.

This is the evaluation of the analyst Riley Mcabi, who helped collect a A comprehensive report On this topic, which was released in late 2024 by the Washington Center, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).

The shooting between the Democratic House, Melissa Hortmann and her husband, Mark, was killed by the shooting of Parklin Park, Minnesota, on June 13.

Vans Poilter, 57, accused of murder, and attempting to kill and chase, and claims to have written his family, “My father went to war last night” in a federal criminal document. Many Democrats, even from outside the state, say that the police told them that their names were found in the private writings of the suspects.

While the first days of the investigation, a suspect in Minnesota may be proportional to the phenomenon that CSIS is increasingly following in the past decade, as Maccabi told CBC News, a “party attack targeting members of the opposite political party.”

Likewise, unlike A high -level shooting of the Republic Steve Scales Nearly eight years until the day of the shooting of Hortmann Hoffman, there was no uniform Call calls for the unitOr to Rachet under the humiliating language.

More personal threats

While a large majority of the attacks between 1991 and 2004 were inspired by ANIMUS towards the federal government, as CSIS reports, inspiration has often become more individual or specific in recent years.

Between 2016 to 2023, intellectual cache documented 21 “terrorist attacks on public officials motivated by party political beliefs”, compared to only two during the previous two decades. Fortunately, the vast majority did not lead to death.

“In the past few years, the elected officials are receiving more threats,” Liliana Mason, who participated in writing the book 2022, has participated. American radical partisan.

“The Capitol police reported more threats to people in Congress, and the judges are threatened more if they do not agree to (President Donald) Trump.”

Democrats are not alone in being violent targets. On the day Masson spoke to CBC, Georgia’s man was announced Accusing the threats of violent voice mail The Republican Senator Ted Cruz and Dib Fischer.

Residential attacks

While the United States is outside the G7 countries in terms of armed violence, it is important to emphasize the uniqueness of the attacks last week, even in American history.

In 1998, Tommy Berks of Tennessee was the last deputy in the state specifically targeting a political attack and killing. While the legislator was killed in South Carolina Clementa Bennnnni at a collective shooting in 2015 in the church, there was no indication that the gunman was the white superiority driven by his political function.

Federal and Democrat Gabriel Jeffords, who were forced to retire from the US Congress after the shooting of 2012, were subjected to public places. But the shooting in Minnesota is part of a group of recent disturbing violence in housing.

Only this year, a man was accused of intentional one and other crimes After a fire at the residence of the governor of PennsylvaniaWhile a former Republican candidate It was condemned to form a variety of charges After appointing men who shot New Mexico’s political homes a few years ago.

During, A 29 -year -old child will be judged Later this year, after traveling to Al -Qadi Higher Street, Brett Cavano, Maryland, in 2022. California has not committed violence, After discovering two federal guards Near Cavano’s residence.

Judges in prominent cases DOXXED has been done through unwanted pizza delivery operationsWhile the police responded several times to a residence owned by the Republican Parliament member Margori Taylor Green to make curtain calls, Once inadvertently caused the death of another person.

Rhetoric

Public or public public figures realistically cannot bear the level of security submitted to the Supreme Court judge, and even at the federal level there are limits for what can be done, Members of Congress said in the capital this week. The former Senator and the US Business Director Mitt Romney once told a journalist that he had spent $ 5,000 outside the pocket daily on security after the Capitol 2021 riot.

Masson, also a professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University, says this makes the leadership speech very important. Since 2017, Mason and Nathan Kalmawi, Associate Professor of Political Communications at Louisiana State University, has made more To investigate views on political violence, in partnership with Yugov.

While Mason and Kalmoe stresses a few evidence that every very small segment of the population will commit a violent attack on the offensive nature, investigative studies indicate the increasing openness to the idea of ​​political violence.

Mason and Calmer reported that in their polls, support jumped to a statement that the opposing party “frankly” jumped from 40 to 59 percent between 2017 and 2021. In early November 2020, 39 percent of Democrats and 48 percent of Republicans had agreed that political violence had been canceled and 60 percent.

In contrast, in 1978-1979, investigative studies conducted by two political scholars and It was later summarized in a bookOnly six percent said that violence is sometimes necessary to achieve a political goal.

Researchers say that calming words from the right people can have a positive effect, even more passionate about the second.

“We have experienced as we had people reading one quote from Joe Biden or Donald Trump, who did not remove political violence, and even this short short thing, people who have read less agreeing with violence than people who have not read anything,” Mason told CBC.

“Ugly Policy”

It is sad that the global condemnation and invited her to the recipe that was seen after the shooting in 2017, unfortunately, no longer occurred, although this week’s response from the right Maga did not reach a mockery of 2022 when the likes of Donald Trump Junior mocked Paul Pelosi’s attack at his home in San Francisco. The Canadian striker sought to confront Democrat Nancy Pelosi, who was in the capital, however Her husband used to fiercely.

A few hours after Minnesota Manhint was published, Senator Mike Lee and Elon Musk spread without evidence that the suspect was from the “difficult left” or “Marxist”.

“Many of what we see in the wake of these attacks is an attempt by both sides to push the perpetrator to the (other party) camp, which I think is an ugly policy, frankly,” said Mcabi, a co -co -co -co -program and illegal threats program at CSIS.

for me Take aside By Minnesota Senator Tina Smith, who described several hateful sites. For me, with more than 600,000 x followers, I finally took the jobs, but they were living for a few days.

John Stewart Ali Daily presentation He was less careful in his language From Smith, he took me to the “Edgelord Shitposting” mission at a time of tragedy.

“Why should I contact him?”

While Trump called last weekend attacks “horrific” in a social media post, he does not seem to have communicated with state officials to emphasize support or identify condolences.

“I think the governor of Minnesota state is very turbulent. I don’t contact him. Why do I call him?” He said on Tuesday.

On Thursday, Trump continued his usual use of inhuman language – which in the past included words such as Vermin, Traitor and Treasonous – referring to the former Biden White officials as “Scum”.

Trump’s combat approach is still unchanged even after the assassination attempt in his life last year, with his arrest weeks after an armed man with well -known well -known views. Also, Trump’s first term in support of his pipeline, fortunately, has witnessed the dwellings of many liberal or democratic figures in 2018.

“An invitation to wake up to everyone will be that people can disagree with you without being evil,” said Joseph Thompson, who is a call to wake up to everyone that people can disagree with you without being evil, “but part of this message was not received as it might matter more.