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| Sarah K. Burris |
MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan implored his viewers not to normalize Donald Trump's veiled calls for violence.
There has been an ongoing debate about giving Trump attention when he issues calls for protests, uprisings, or his allies' calls for outright civil war. Hasan doesn't care if Trump ends up getting more attention. He explained, political violence must be denounced, even if the Republican Party won't do it.
He asked at the top of his Sunday show.
I mean, can you imagine if any other presidential candidate in recent decades, [George W.] Bush, (Barack) Obama, (Bill) Clinton, (Mitt) Romney, (Joe) Biden had multiple supporters using their candidates language, being violent and threatening, getting killed by law enforcement while attempting violent crimes?Those candidates' campaigns would have been over before they began. But with Trump, we shrug. We accept it as just the way things are now. We should not. We cannot. We have to call it out. We have to condemn the violence and the incitement of violence.
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