While I agree with the sentiment regarding the unacceptability of political violence, there’s a false equivalence here. Just because both sides are painting one another as the devil incarnate does not mean both sides are equally to blame for this state of affairs or that both are of equal merit. Trump has the propagandist’s instinct for taking whatever accusation is thrown at him and hurling it right back so that the impression is created that both sides are the same. They’re not. Biden is obviously losing his mental acuity and that’s a worry, but Trump is manifestly a threat to democracy. He tried to reject the result of the last election and to subvert the peaceful transfer of power. If there’s a next time it will be much much worse. You cannot lose sight of that critical difference between them. Ultimately this is not about the temperature of the rhetoric. It’s about the substantive differences between the candidates, and they are enormous.