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Republicans Embrace Political Violence
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Republicans Embrace Political Violence

Since Trump was first elected in 2016, violent threats against members of Congress have increased more than 10 times.

Trump's Republican Party has fully embraced a biblical culture war that is mainstreaming hate speech used by Christian nationalists and white supremacists who believe that armed confrontation with the U.S. government is inevitable. A majority of Republicans now support violence to stop the decline of the “traditional American way of life,” and “declaring the US a Christian nation”.

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