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Trump, Enabler of American Political Hooliganism?

If you like your politics raucous and raunchy, Donald Trump has been your candidate this year.

He’s taken us into areas we have not seen in presidential politics: From man’s discontent to man’s anatomy.

The Tea Party is actually more like a tea party compared to what we’ve seen from Trump in this election cycle.

And after the violence that broke out last Friday, disrupting the start of a rally in Chicago, it’s clear—that the country is in crisis.

Heather Cox Richardson, a history professor at Boston College, knows we are in a scary time.

“Violence in American politics is often the way Americans do business,” Cox Richardson said on CBS Radio. She said Americans riot when they feel the government is unfair and it is unfairly privileging someone other than them.

“That’s how we call attention to perceived inequalities in American society,” she said.

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