How Donald Trump turns a profit on political violence

Donald Trump , like autocrats, dictators, and tyrants he admires, will not let a crisis go to waste.

Trump takes every opportunity to advance his own needs and interests despite (if not because) how many other people may be hurt in the process.

Trump was the target of an assassination attempt in Butler , Pennsylvania during which he was hit in the ear.

Julian Zelizer : Donald Trump's claims that Biden and Harris bear direct culpability underscore the extreme nature of his own political instincts.

Trump has plans for the largest deportation campaign in American history when and if he takes power in 2025 and becomes the country’s first dictator.

Zelizer says the mainstream news media has occasional moments of clarity where instead of normalizing Trump and his MAGA movement's aberrant and extremely dangerous behavior they choose to properly sound the alarm about it.

Julian Zelizer : At the heart of today ’s eruption of political violence is Donald Trump , a figure who seems to inspire people to make threats or take actions both for him and against him.

Zelizer says Trump has long favored the language of violence in his political discourse.

He says the mainstream media needs to learn and internalize the rules and realities about Donald Trump and the larger right wing and neofascist right.