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Mark R. Reiff, Research Affiliate in Legal and Political Philosophy, University of California, Davis

Trump’s violent rhetoric echoes the fascist commitment to a destructive and bloody rebirth of society

Donald Trump attends his civil fraud trial in New York City on Oct. 25, 2023. Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images

Former President Donald Trump’s rhetoric has regularly bordered on the incitement of violence. Lately, however, it has become even more violent. Yet both the press and the public have largely just shrugged their shoulders.

As a political philosopher who studies extremism, I believe people should be more worried about this.

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