Republicans won’t keep up their peace-and-unity charade till November

According to Politico, Washington D.C., is a city shrouded in fear of violence. But not violence from foreign terrorists or crime. Like many cities, Washington has seen a large drop in violent crime over the last year. 

The violence that has the citizens of the nation’s capital terrified is political violence, the kind often inspired by politicians wielding violent rhetoric. And most of that rhetoric has its origin in one man.

Last week, Donald Trump and his Republican Party tried to curtail that rhetoric, distance themselves from the violence that recently threatened Trump’s life and lay claim to calls for national unity. But the problem for Trump and his MAGA Republicans is that violence is all they have. Turning the spotlight on other policies requires first having other policies.

And their biggest idea could be the single largest act of political violence in the history of the United States.