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Violence Is a Legitimate Response to Presence
In the past few days, there have been calls to violence from protesters in the streets of major american cities and also on line from progressive pundits. I think people may have forgotten how this debate has gone very deadly before, with doctors who provide abortions being killed in the name of the pro life movement. Americans tell polsters increasingly that because they perceive the other side has already violated important norms, it is now justified to do violence against them. And i am convinced that the polarization in this country is uniquely, newly bad.