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The Motivation of Political Commentators and Cult Leaders

I can't speak to the motivations of any particular commentator or cult leader. I would guess that someone who is a political commentator on TV probably doesn't have the actual motivation to inspire the violence, but they are really good at justifying their words and rationalizing away their behavior. These are left wingers who take signals that Bernie Sanders never gave and interpret them in incorrect ways. And sometimes that results in the sort of attack that you or I would both say no one was urging them to do that.

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