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Guest Essay

By Robert A. Pape

Dr. Pape is a professor of political science at the University of Chicago who has studied political violence for 30 years.

Since the beginning of President Trump’s second term in January, acts of political violence in the United States have been occurring at an alarming rate.

The assassination and attempted assassination on Saturday of two Minnesota state lawmakers and their spouses are horrific recent examples. Since January there have also been politically motivated attacks on Tesla dealerships, an act of arson that........

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