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Mass murder and American history

"Screw your optics, I’m going in."

This is bigger than hate, this latest mass shooting, last weekend, at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, in which, oh my God, 11 more innocent souls died at the hands of a home-grown terrorist.

The president's anti-immigrant may have been in grotesque synchronicity with the killer's: "Many Gang Members and some very bad people are mixed into the Caravan heading to our Southern Border. . . . This is an invasion of our Country and our Military is waiting for you!" And they no doubt fed the climate in which Robert Bowers acted, but this is bigger than Donald Trump.

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