Bomb attacks expose festering divisions

Partisan enmity, incendiary rhetoric and polarization were under a more intense spotlight than ever Wednesday after crude explosive devices were sent to several leading Democratic politicians and to CNN.

President Trump, addressing the crisis briefly at the White House, insisted that “we have to unify, we have to come together.”

But Democrats and liberal commentators reacted with scorn to that message, pointing the finger at Trump for injecting toxins into the nation’s political bloodstream.

Trump was accused of encouraging violence at his rallies during the 2016 presidential race, on one occasion pledging to pay the legal fees of anyone who were to “knock the crap” out of protestors.

He has consistently called his 2016 Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton — one of the targets of this week's attacks — “crooked.” And he has blasted the news media as the “enemy of the American people.”

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