Rick Perlstein: "What Democrats Need to Know About Violence at Trump Rallies"

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3. Trump as the pig on a platter spoiler.

Seems to me there's definitely something to it -- for mainstream voters who have too much to be interested in rioting.

That still leaves the hopeful populist barn-burners on both the right and the far left. Anyone remember the "letting-it-all-out" fad back some time in the 1980s? Controlling, i.e., bottling it up, like a grownup was supposed to be bad for you, getting it out healthy. Unfortunately, or fortunately, it turned out that letting it all out makes people more angry, not less.

Already people are talking up front on line, and no doubt in secret, about uniting the populist and extremist "anti-" anger of both the right and radical left. If they were to succeed - Katie, bar the door!