After the Cold-Blooded Shootings in Minnesota, Who Will Call Them Out?

June 17, 2025

We need a new profile in courage, which will resist Donald Trump as a leader of the spread of this polarization and violence.

Improvised DFL State Representative Melissa Hortman and Her husband Mark Hortman, assembled in the Minnesota Capitol on June 16, 2025 to St. Paul, Minnesota.(Stephen Garcia / Getti Image)

The cold shooting of two Minnesota legislators and their spouses in what was, according to Governor Minnesota Tim Waltse, “politically motivated murder“The expected condemnation of political polarization and violence has caused, more and more uncertain calls that” is not the one we are. “President Donald Trump convict The shooting as a “horrible”, saying that in the United States of America such violence is “not allowed”, and is characteristic of the occasion to despise the governor of Waltz as “a rude incompetent man.

Of course, the reality is that it is increasingly “who we are”. Political violence and threats are on the riseFrom the unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Trump during the campaign to an increasing threat to judges and legislators to the fire of the Governor of Pennsylvania Josh Shapiro to the residence of killings in Minnesota.

There is no disorder and concern – the accusation of the leading spread of this polarization and violence – Donald Trump, with its poisonous political rhetoric and a repeated threat of retailing its political opponents. There is also no modern Margaret Chase Smith, a republican senator, who, in the midst of red fear in 1950, had the courage to withstand Joe McCartky’s colleagues on the Senate floor.

Smith, the only woman in the Senate at the time, and the first woman who worked in both congresses was a strong republican and a cruel critic of the Truman administration, which she considered weak in performing the Soviet threat. However, when Makartky’s increasingly hysterical accusations were unfounded, destroying the reputation of more and more officials, she decided that someone should call him.

Her 15-minute speech On the floor of the Senate named McCarty, but its purpose was clear. “The nation needs a republican victory. But I do not want to see how the Republican Party goes to the political victory on the four riders of Ca Gum – half, ignorance, bigotry and smear.” She was joined by six other republican senators in the “Declaration of Conscience”, which repeated the call to defend freedom of expression and association. The fall of McCarty happened four years later, but there is no question that Smith’s courage noted the beginning of her decline.

Now we need another profile in courage. Trump’s separate rhetoric was his signature because he was traveling on a gold escalator 10 years ago to report that he had run for the president and used this occasion to draw Mexican immigrants as murderers and rapists. His vulgar icons, a brazen lie, a fierce mockery and a minor call, is the main place in his spiral and attractiveness. Like Finton O’Toole notedHe uses vulgar and tauros to build “cultural authority” with his crowd, saying that the unchanging, fishing “woke up”, creating the idea that they are united “when they joke.”

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But in the company of 2024 and, more importantly, from the pulpit of the hooligan in office, Trump’s rhetoric has a more vicious and dangerous advantage. It not only worsens his opponents as fools, incompetens and corrupt; He accuses them of the country’s hatred, draws them as an enemy inside, denotes them as Marxists and radicals. Assume tweet– All in the hats – the president, released to commemorate the Day of Remembrance, a day that pays tribute to those who sacrificed their lives in battle:

Happy Memorial Day to everyone, including the plot that has spent the last four years, trying to destroy our country through the deformed left minds of the radical.

He continued to condemn

The United States hate judges who suffer from ideology that is sick and very dangerous for our country …! Again, a happy day of memory and God bless America.

As the courts question, the lawless actions of Trump increased. In March he announced

Radical left -wing judges can fully lead to destruction of our country! These people are crazy, even a little about the consequences of their very dangerous and wrong decisions and rulings … The danger has no equal.

His confusion is not limited to the judges. The day after the killings in Minnesota, Trump Twitter A call for expanding deportation efforts in major cities led by democratic mayors. “These radical left -wing Democrats get sick, hate our country and actually want to destroy our inner cities.”

Trump’s deep accusations are repeated and expanded by his servants and courtiers. Egforgery“

Not surprisingly, legislators, governors and federal judges are now faced with increasing threats. In April, more than two dozen federal judges received surprise pizza delivery in their homes, made under the name of Daniel Ander, son of a federal judge who was killed in 2020. Message as reported in NationIt was clear: “We know where you live.

Add the pardon of those who fired the Capitol on January 6, including those convicted for attacking police officers. Maskilated agents who abduct people stealing people on the streets. Sending Marine Infantry to Los -Angeles. The White House promises a “tough look” for a pardon for two men convicted of assassination for the murder of Governor Michigan Gretchen Whiter. We are outside “there are good people on both sides” or mockery Joe Biden.

Will the modern Margaret Chase Smith change the situation? Obviously, our world has changed – the media is no longer centralized, “alternative facts” invented for confusion. And yet the clarity and courage have their power. Because as Senator Alaska Lisa Murkovsky – Note“We are all afraid”, fearing both political retaliation and retribution that paid their voters, silence – cowardice – Republicans, who for rare exceptions were deafening. A clear statement calling for the danger of Trump’s provocations, backed by even with several republican colleagues, at least ensuring a check in the White House. Trump would undoubtedly double as McCarty did. But distracting the curtain, the warning of the danger ahead may well mention the turning point from the hard and dangerous path. Is there a republican leader in the Senate or in government houses?