Bluesky

This is definitely just the beginning

:-/ We're well past the beginning. Three guys took pot-shots at Trump on the campaign trail, ffs. And two Minnesota state reps were gunned down in June. That's not even counting the daily War On Elementary Schools And Minority Frequented Big Box Retailers that splatter the headlines. Or the white nationalists lined up along the border who have been gunning down anyone who looks brown and on the wrong side of the fence for... decades.

You can trace this ugly inflammatory political violence back to Gabby Giffords, back to Oklahoma City, back to MLK and JFK/RFK, back to Emmitt Till. We're long past a beginning.

definitely just the beginning of escalating political violence in America

Not quite the beginning. I'd say we're at the tipping point, where attacks against notable people on 'the other side' start ramping up. It's usually significant amounts of time between attempts. The congress baseball game, the congresswoman shot in the head, the plan to kidnap the governor, the attack on paul pelosi, the two minnesotan families attacked, rand paul (though that was because he's an asshole of a neighbor more than politics, wasn't it?)... all of these were pretty spread apart. Now we're getting to mere months between political actors being targeted, and I don't see it slowing down. With a dumbrident trump literally making 'war' memes about sending troops into american cities, we are going to see things get even worse.

The beginning was years ago. It's ongoing now.