Despite that threat, one day later, when the right-wing media outlet Breitbart News published the warrant underlying the Mar-a-Lago search, it did not redact the names of the F.B.I.
Still, Ms. Kleinfeld said, there are ways of lowering the average person’s tolerance for violence.
Political violence can also be made more palatable by couching it as defensive action against a belligerent enemy.
“The right, at this point, is doing all three of these things at once,” Ms. Kleinfeld said.
There is little evidence that Republicans and right-wing media figures have tempered their rhetoric, even as Congress and the Justice Department investigate the Jan. 6 attack.
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Rachel Kleinfeld, Kleinfeld, Ms
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Breitbart, Trump, Capitol Police, Carnegie Endowment, International, Justice Department, Republicans