EXCERPT:
BROWNSTEIN: “You know, if you are the most sympathetic observer possible to Donald Trump and you do double backflips, you can find some credence in his argument that on January 6 he did not know that his language would lead to violence. But January 6 has now happened. He knows the effect of the language that he used that day and how it led to violence. And here he is, coming very close to that language again. It makes it very hard to avoid the conclusion that he is willing to use the threat of violence as part of his political strategy, and that is just a reminder of the very different era we are in, we have been in any point in American history, where you have Trump, the leader of a political movement, who is routinely willing to raise the specter of violence as a way of advancing his goals. And so many conservative commentators and members of Congress, who have condemned preemptively the possibility of indictment, remain silent on his -- his raising this threat of violence. So, that, I think, is just enormously significant and a marker of the very different era that we are in politically than we have ever been in before."