amidst the calls for toning down the rhetoric, what about a campaign ad with a supercut of all the times Trump
has dehumanized his opponents; mocked violence or its victims; or casually, flippantly, or deliberately alluded to violence as a viable alternative to our established legal/political institutions and processes. There is no shortage of such efforts on his part. It would be nice to contrast such calls for tolerance as we've heard from bipartisan sources with the reality of the rhetoric that Trump has always relied on in his rise to power.
Trump is not responsible for the shooting, but no mainstream American political figure has done more this century to raise the temperature or cheapen the discourse than he has. Any serious effort to emphasize the civility in civil discourse has to reject that sort of political leadership as we move forward.