America, hate land
The murder of Charlie Kirk was shocked by the nation. Likewise, some of Eulogies – especially the contradiction between the message from the widow of Kirk, Erika Lin Kirk, and President Trump.
“This man. This young man,” said Ms. Kirk, referring to her alleged husband’s killer. “I forgive him … The answer to hatred is not hatred. The answer that we know from the Bible is love and always love it.”
Trump opposed.
He said: “I hate my opponent, and I do not want the best for them … This is the place I did not agree with Charlie.” In response to a question about this later, White House press secretary Caroline Levit said Trump was “praying himself” in saying this.
Levitt was right, and this is very annoying. Leaders we elect the best of us should emerge. Instead, Trump uses his pupil to encourage hatred, intolerance and violence. He has done this on the national theater since entering politics in 2015, and none of the handrails that served us in the past – the constitution, tradition or common decency – has not stopped it.
The FBI defines hate crime as “a criminal crime against a person or property fully driven or partially through the perpetrator’s bias against race, religion, disability, sexual tendency, race, sex, or sexual identity.” Last year, 14243 Americans were victims of 11,679 hate crimes. Between Trump’s flight below the elevator in 2015 and the end of last year, the number of hate crimes has doubled.
We cannot blame any one person in this deviant direction, of course, but we cannot deny that Trump has set fire. His words over the past decade, and his actions now encourage violence and hatred.
“One of the distinctive features of Trump’s 2016 presidential nomination was his willingness to challenge social standards through his use of explicit racist discourse and his association with white excellence,” according to a study published in Embassy.
In 2019, a gunman deployed an online anti -migrant message and shot 45 people, killing 23 in Wall Mart in Texas. Critics were martyred in Trump’s anti -immigrant speech. “I think my speech brings people together,” Trump said.
In 2020, ABC News has identified 54 criminal cases in which Trump’s name was called by people who committed or threatened violence.
In 2021, Vox collected a timetable for the notes in which Trump encouraged violence against demonstrators, immigrants and correspondents. The attacks on the demonstrators called “very appropriate” and the type of work “We need a little more.”
In 2023, the researchers concluded that political elites could affect people’s opinions about race. They called it “hanging racism”. Studies have found that “inhuman beliefs are racist” about blacks increased after Trump’s victory. Critics blamed Trump’s “foreign speech” for a dramatic increase in online threats against the Asians after the 2024 elections.
Now, “Trump and his allies have developed a wide plan to target liberal groups, monitor speech, cancel visas, and appoint certain groups as local terrorists,” according to the New York Times. Trump, falsely, argues that the American cities led by Democrats are the arid lands of crime and violence, the law does not justify that it is justified in violating the long taboo against the use of military forces against American citizens. Last week, he told the country’s leading military commanders that they could use these cities to train forces to fight.
Depending on how to determine “mass shooting”, America 341 witnessed a mass shooting this year – at a rate of 1.5 every day. Those who are motivated by ideology are very rare. The Anti -Distort Association is 62 mass killings since 1970 to be ideologically motivated; More than half of these have happened since 2012.
From 2015 to 2019, during Trump’s first presidency, the annual total of extremism in the United States ranged between 47 to 78 in general.
Unfortunately, the response to hatred and violence has become a political blame game instead of national research. It is not as if hate and political violence were not studied. For example, a study published by Lancet just indicates that “racism, hostile sexual discrimination, recruitment, transversobia, foreign gods, anti -Semitism, and Islamic fear increase the risk of personal violence in general” to produce “support to commit political violence in the United States.”
However, if experts break the code, the leaders did little of them. As John Stewart, after a modern group of mass shootings, indicated that we do not analyze this “complex fusion” of factors. Instead, we politicize it by maintaining the result if the archers come from the right or left.
We need to face difficult questions. Why did we allow America to become a theater of armed hatred and political violence? With less than 5 percent of people in the world, do we need to own 46 percent of its rifles? Should the offensive weapons designed to kill people with superior efficiency?
What is the “well organized militia” depicted by the second amendment? Is it the weekend of the warrior weekends wearing and practicing military tactics in the forest, including groups that defend another civil war? Or is the National Guard?
Is Trump’s false image of the law -free cities an excuse for authoritarianism? An overwhelming majority of Americans appreciate diversity and prefer a multicultural society. Why do we allow us to hate, separatists and acceleration specialists in the White House leading us to a non -American road? What is the social and moral cost of electing and tolerance of leaders who pay the worst of our pulses instead of our best angels?
How do we manage this?
William S. Baking He is a co -editor and a contributor to “Non -Rising Democracy: How to rebuild the government for the people”, and the contributor to democracy in a more hot time, which Nature magazine was called as one of the five best scientific books in 2023. He previously worked as a senior official in the Ministry of Justice in Wisconsin. He is currently the CEO of the climate presidential work project, and he is a non -party climate research center that is not affiliated with the White House.
