It is the 15th of July, the day after Bastille Day, 112 days to go until the election,

35 until the Democratic National Convention.

The Republican National Convention is convening today in Milwaukee,

the weekend after the assassination attempt on former President Trump.

This is the warning.

President Biden has called for a lowering of the temperature, a cooling of the rhetoric,

and Donald Trump has called for unity.

President Biden said violence has no place in American politics.

Let's stop there and let's stay there for a minute. Certainly, that is the world that we should

live in, but that is never the country that we have lived in. Violence has

always been a part of America's life. Violence has stained, as my friend David Frum said,

every page of American history with blood.

Violence is something to be overcome.

And there is something that is essential to understand.

Violence begets violence.

Begets more violence. Begets more violence. Begets more violence. There is one thing that I have said over and over and over again for two years at the warning. And it's this. The path to defeating Donald Trump is deeply connected to being

able to articulate and offer something that is better. Evil against violence is never better. Violence that begets more violence, insanity that begets more

insanity must be condemned. But this is an age of incitement, and the inciter in chief is the man

who was shot. Donald Trump is a man of violence and menace and cruelty.

He has incited violence over and over again.

When he called on his crowds to punch protesters in the face,

when he told the proud boys to stand back and be ready.

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