they've made it clear that they're engaged in an ongoing effort to seize power by any means necessary, including through contingencies where they lose the election. that's the meaning of the eastman memo. number two, the democratic party's politicians from left to right do not make intimations towards violence. it has become routine on the right and inside the republican party. with republican members of congress pointing high caliber weapons at objects and firing them, the language of violence, the image of the gun, the idea that their countrymen are their enemies. and so, historically, we know, when you put all of that fuel on the ground and you start throwing sparks at it, that you can ignite a conflagration, and when you dehumanize people the way that this man and this