How Does Trump’s Violent Rhetoric End?

Matter of Opinion

New York Times Opinion

Society & Culture, Ross Douthat, News, New York Times, Journalism

4.2 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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How worried should we really be about the threat of political violence? On this week’s episode of “Matter of Opinion,” columnist Jamelle Bouie joins the hosts to set the record straight on whether we’re actually living through an unusually violent era, and they discuss whether the new movie, “Civil War,” could come true. Plus, Keanu Reeves in his most beautiful form yet.

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0:00.0	I did recently read a great book on the history of the air 15 oh it is really good that's the that's by like those two
0:06.4	authors the two co-authors right yeah that's right yeah don't bring up books with Carlos in the room
0:10.9	but did not win so mel Mel reads more than I do.
0:13.0	Have you read his columns?
0:15.0	I can't believe I've been left with you too.
0:16.5	Sorry.
0:18.0	From New York Times Opinion, I'm Carlos Lozada.
0:21.8	I'm Michelle Kottel. and this is matter of opinion where thoughts are allowed.
0:27.0	No.
0:28.0	Yes, they're allowed. So Ross is traveling this week and Lydia is currently on the Columbia University campus reporting on the protests there as we're recording this.
0:49.0	So we'll have more on that subject soon.
0:52.0	But in their place doing double duty is our colleague
0:55.6	Jamel Bowie who would be wanting to have on for a long time. Welcome, Jamel.
0:59.4	Welcome. Thank you guys for having me. Excellent. You didn't know you'd be doing such hard labor today.
1:04.0	Double duty.
1:05.0	Sorry.
1:06.0	So today we're going to talk about, I don't know, maybe, maybe a little bit of a grim subject,
1:12.0	but it's one we've been meeting to discuss for a while and that is the prospect of and the reality of political violence in the United States.
1:20.3	Now it's not a new story for America. We've had domestic terrorism, political
1:24.7	assassinations, even a civil war, but there are a few reasons I want to talk
1:27.3	about this now. First, polling shows that there's a chunk of Americans who seem
1:31.7	willing to justify violence as a tool of politics.
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