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Trump and America’s Cycle of Political Violence

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Donald Trump supporters will try to overturn his election loss in an insurrection on January 6, 2021 .

Julian Zelizer : In July , a would-be assassin struck Trump ’s ear at a rally in Pennsylvania ; authorities thwarted another gunman this month .

Trump has helped normalize the idea that some political differences are too large to be settled by democratic means, Zelizer says.

The U.S. has experienced cycles of political violence within living memory, says Julian Zelizer .

The Democratic Party has no leader equivalent to Trump who embraces threats as a political strategy.

Zelizer: Even a sound electoral defeat for Trump would not immediately reduce the danger of violence.

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informal

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English

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63

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likely offensive

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short-lived

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