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The shooting of a Republican leader in Congress and others by a disturbed left-wing attacker at a baseball practice in northern Virginia early Wednesday morning brings to mind all sorts of problems in America: the viciousness of our politics, the absurdity of our public rhetoric, the prevalence of violence.
It'd be easy for conservatives to play the same game so many liberals have played in comparable events — to play up the shooter's work as a Bernie Sanders-for-president volunteer, that he was a fan of MSNBC and CNN, that he hated President Donald Trump and hated Republicans and wanted higher taxes on rich people. His actions weren't really an attack on Congress; they were an attack on Republicans.