Esmeralda
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- Feb 5, 2013
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Hillary supporters are not engaging in violent protest.It's been an interesting phenomenon watching his "campaign". Yes, Trump said things that could easily be called "throwing red meat to the crowd", but those individuals are still accountable for their own actions for the same reasons mentioned before. If you want to hold Trump accountable for the actions of his supporters, then you have to do the same for those who support Hillary, Obama, Gore, etc. It's not a one-way street.I am mainly thinking about the violence at his rallies and speeches. No American presidential candidate has ever engendered such violence at his functions. And I don't think it is down to the left wing protesters: if Trump didn't use the kind of crude and violenct language he uses, if he didn't use the imagery he uses, if he didn't use the kind of violent rhetoric he uses, if he didn't offend so many people with his racism and bigotry, if he didn't get people so worked up in hatred of minority groups, there would be few protesters at his functions and his people and those people would not be getting into violent confrontations. It's all down to Trump, IMO.
If he is actually elected, it will only get worse.
I'm sure you've noticed he's tempered his rhetoric. To some degree, I think he only said those things because 1) he likes to flap his lips and 2) he loves to be adored by a crowd/mob.