Make no mistake — the insurgency in Washington was not an unexpected, spontaneous incident. President Trump and his Republican supporters have been stoking this for years.

Trump has consistently been coddling the vilest elements of society — neo-Nazis, proud punks (or whatever) and similar hate mobs — egging them on with his loud, clear “dog-whistle” language, and the Republicans have been with him all along. The banana- republic insurrection in Washington was the inevitable result.

It’s clear that the Republicans are no longer a legitimate democratic political party — they have become some sick, debased thing that I can’t even name.

The division in America is no longer between Democrats and Republicans, but between decent, patriotic Americans and Trump’s ugly brute mobs.

Larry Fish

Wilkinsburg

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