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. In an interview with CBS following the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, Trump blamed the most recent attempt on his life on 'the hate speech of the Democrats,' which he called 'very dangerous.' The New York Post asked on Sunday, 'Where did Allen get such ideas about Trump and the need to remove him, via murder'' It answered the question like so: 'Almost certainly from the left, including from Democrats in positions of power. Barely a day goes by without some Dem calling Trump an autocrat, a king, a dictator, Hitler.' Also on Sunday, CNN's Dana Bash asked Representative Jamie Raskin to engage with the premise. 'You and many of your fellow Democrats have used some heated rhetoric...
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