With those events in the background, a lot of anti-Trump commentary over the weekend has been shot through with a fear that the social order is breaking down. Louis and at a cancelled rally in Chicago, and then a man tried to rush the stage when the candidate spoke in Dayton. Trump-lovers and Trump-haters brawled at a speech in St. The chaos on the Trump tour has amped up in the last few days. Instead we've had impostures: liberals who pretended Sarah Palin's "never retreat, instead reload" was meant literally, conservatives who did the same for Barack Obama's "get in their face." To watch Trump telling thugs that he might cover their legal bills is to see just how counterfeit those controversies were. Three days later, he was talking on national television about paying the puncher's court costs.) This isn't unprecedented in American history, but it doesn't have much recent precedent. (Confronted about the punching incident at the last GOP debate, Trump declared that he did "not condone" it. What's strange is to see a candidate encouraging that violence with only the barest fig leaf of deniability. If you do, I'll defend you in court." But it's still extraordinary.įreelance violence has always been a part of American politics. This shouldn't come as a great surprise, given the ways Trump has been reacting to protesters over the last few weeks, ruminating nostalgically about the "old days" when they'd be "carried out on a stretcher" and saying things like "Try not to hurt him.
Donald Trump mused yesterday that he might pay legal fees for the man who suckered-punched a peaceful protester as the latter was being led out of a campaign rally.
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