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Jackie Calmes: Will the Republican Party trigger another round of Jan. 6-style violence ?

President Donald Trump, right, gestures next to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy as they deliver remarks in Bakersfield, California, on Feb. 19, 2020.

Wasn't Jan. 6, 2021, proof enough for Rep. "My Kevin" McCarthy and other Republican officials that words matter?

That anti-government rhetoric, echoes of Donald Trump's grievances and war metaphors are triggers — no pun intended — for a small battalion of armed extremists, who stand back and stand by for any perceived signal to literally go into battle for the defeated president?

That someone could get killed?

Clearly Republicans haven't learned that lesson.

The only surprise bigger than the news Monday of the FBI search of Trump's Mar-a-Lago home was the immediate circling of the wagons

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