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It helps if we just focus on one cause/effect at a time. Whose political candidate was the gun aimed at? When someone takes a shot at Joe, then we can talk about what Trump has said. Until then, I'm going to say that the tough talk from the View and their audience is what has created this environment in which people really and truly think that a Trump second presidency is going to lead to the dismantling of the United States. I know more, many more, left-leaning bananas who believe that as I do alt-right conspiracy theorists who believe in Pizza Gate and liberal cabals who eat babies. The latter are fringe; the former are rank-in-file "never Trump" liberal Democrats. There is a discernable difference in population size and in degree of committed belief. The crazy alt-righties in my circle are of a certain type. They tend to live rural, they tend to be uneducated and they tend to a few other things I'll leave off the table for now. The liberal "Oh my God he's stealing our Democracy!" hysterical handwringers run the gamut: rural/urban, highly educated/uneducated, professional/no career, male/female, old/young … you name it. The public campaign against Trump has been enormous and effective, and there are a lot of people who are convinced he's the devil.

There is a difference.