Less than a week after Vice President Kamala Harris claimed that “it’s up to the American people to stop him” at the presidential debate, the Secret Service thwarted a second assassination attempt on President Donald Trump at his golf course in West Palm Beach.

Ryan Wesley Routh faces two gun charges, but Americans are blaming politicians and major news outlets for pushing the overheated rhetoric that encouraged this behavior. The Left likewise raised concerns about dangerous rhetoric from Trump after he accused Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, of eating cats and dogs.

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