In the immediate aftermath of Saturday night’s attack at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, one familiar line of commentary surfaced quickly.A recurring theme in the liberal media has been to attribute political violence—and the broader “climate” surrounding it—to rhetoric from Donald Trump, casting him as uniquely responsible for inflaming tensions.
That line of attack was on display almost immediately in an interview with Steve Schmidt, a founder of the disgraced Lincoln Project. Asked whether the country has a “rhetoric problem” in light of multiple assassination attempts on President Trump, Schmidt pointed squarely at Trump:
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