Stochastic terrorism - I want to hear it at the Senate trial

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8. I disagree. His words during the campaign,

and on election night and for weeks afterward set the stage. In fact, his entire presidency of demonizing individuals and groups with violent suggestions, e.g. beating up media and protesters at his rallies, created the anger in people that he directed at the Capitol.

The Capitol attack was the end result of Trump's constant demonization of " enemies of the state" in order to arouse the kind of anger that he could mobilize. That is exactly the point being made in today's trial session. They have described his history of inciting people to anger, but just haven't used the term that fits what they are describing.

Trump's lawyers can and probably will claim that, although Trump told the mob where to go on Jan 6, and he told them to "fight for America," he did not explicitly order them to physically attack members of Congress or the Capitol building. He can claim innocence of what the mob did if you are looking solely at explicit directions from him.

But when you recognize the reality of such a thing as stochastic terrorism, and identify how Trump used it, then he has no defense in claiming that he did not specifically order them to do a physical attack. He knew that he was arousing a terroristic mood and what it could and likely would result in because that is the whole point of using stochastic terrorism rhetoric - to arouse people to vicious and illegal actions without specically ordering them to do it.