Political Violence
This August 2022 piece by Brookings scholar Darrell M. West is depressing and scary.
West, for example, reports:
one-quarter of my Governance Studies residential scholars have been the object of credible death threats. On a number of occasions, we had to notify the FBI about threatened violence and at least one of these threats was serious enough that a man was arrested.
West rightly recommends:
political leaders need to tone down their inflammatory rhetoric. Reacting to various events with divisive rhetoric or threats of retaliation encourages people to act on that language.