We all know goddamn well what's going on here and who's to blame.

A coworker who is a republican and trump voter just commented on a shooting at a Louisville Kroger yesterday, and asked me "what is going on?"

"No comment," I replied, which he took exactly as I meant it:  "we both know goddamn well what's going on here and who's to blame."

We've got a wannabe dictator with the mind and temperament of a toddler who is blatantly ordering his ravening hordes to attack, injure and even kill those he designates as enemies.  Which conveniently includes the entire Democratic Party and the non-Fox media, plus everyone who is not white, male, straight, rich, christian and repug.

And they are following orders.  The pipe bombs weren't the beginning and they won't be the end.

Josh Marshall at TPM reveals how the current fetish for demanding "civility" plays into the hands of the violence-mongers.

Decency, being nice, presuming all speech and political actions are based on good faith rather than ill will – these are all fine enough things if you can manage them. But those mores can be difficult to sustain when society is attempting to litigate fundamental disagreements which are difficult and maybe impossible to solve through compromise.

The real line is the one President Trump crosses almost daily: ‘jokes’ about state violence against political enemies, apocalyptic or dehumanizing rhetoric like calling the press the “enemy of the people” which invites violence, the kinds of casual slanders we hear about Jewish billionaires or the Democratic party organizing hordes of immigrants to storm the country’s borders. These are the kinds of actions that start to make civic life, democratic life, difficult and then impossible.

I don’t deny that a certain level of polarization, coarseness in the way we talk to each other or reflexive presumptions of bad faith can lead us toward Trumpian type rhetoric. But that’s like a gateway drug argument. Sure, it happens with some people. But mostly not. The simple truth is that we can live with our politics being raucous, aggressive and even mean. What kills civic life is not only violence but violent incitement, rhetoric of dehumanization and the politics of aggression and hate that is still largely the exclusive possession of the political right in the United States today.

(emphasis mine)