Calling Trump a Tyrant Is Not a Call to Violence

Jonathan Chait: “To describe Donald Trump as a corrupt aspiring authoritarian is not to conclude that he should be murdered.”

“This ought to be a simple point to understand. Yet it is lost on a large swath of the American right, who insist that calling Trump what he is causes at least some of his opponents—among them, the accused shooter Cole Tomas Allen—to believe that violence is justified against the president.”