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‘This President’s Modus Operandi Is to Divide Us’

Commentators from the left and the right say the president needs to be more careful and less caustic in what he says.
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Last week in America: 11 people at worship were killed by an anti-Semitic gunman at a synagogue in Pittsburgh. Two African Americans were shot dead at a Kentucky supermarket, allegedly by a man driven by racial hatred who’d tried to bust into a black church minutes earlier. And more than a dozen pipe bombs were mailed to critics of Donald Trump by an avid, unstable supporter.

Hate was transmuted into violence. What role did our divisive and angry politics play?

[Read: America’s fatal shame]

Politicians and commentators are calling for toned-down discourse, apportioning responsibility for the toxic

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