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Welp, the violence is starting sooner than I thought.
If you think this is the start, you have missed a lot of news.
Well if it helps ease your mind, he is clearly mentally unwell, not any sort of organization planning strategic moves. Similar murders have happened for a while.
What percentage of Trump supporters are mentally well? My mind is definitely not eased.
Well I'd say the constant extremist propaganda pushed by FOX, OAN and the likes at the very least carelessly accept that their message will incite such mentally receptive people to commit violence. So while not "planned" it's certainly viewed as acceptable "collateral damage".
And for some of the more extreme ones of them they definitely DO want such acts of violence to occur and they knowingly using stochastic terrorism to ferment it.
Starting? This is by no means the first nutjob who kills for MAGA/Trump. They've had a whole insurrection with several deaths caused.
A lot can be said for mentally ill and the right wing and extremism, but again, this guy was mentally ill which caused him to do something horrible. This is not really something new. He should not have been fed a steady stream of lies, but he should also have received mental health care.