"There is no place for violence in our politics."

I disagree: there is a place for political violence. 

I am not promoting it. I am not aligning with it. I am just saying that there IS a place for it. 

That place is created by the continued end-runs made around voters, especially gerrymandering, but also by continued assaults on people's right to vote. When your vote results in nothing, a person might seek other redress. 

When the political class decides to force you into a minority, and voting doesn't work, sure, you can protest. But the right to protest has been dramatically curtailed, unless you are an elected official. Then, like Marjorie Taylor Green, Lauren Boebert, Ron Johnson, JD "Whore" Vance, and the rest of them, you can say absolutely anything to encourage violence, subtly or pointedly. It is considered sacrosanct political speech, and you are not allowed to vote it out or protest it. 

Voting rights curtailed, speech rights curtailed. 

When these things happen, those in power CREATE a space for political violence. When your only tool is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Well, when you are limited to violence to effect change, that is on the system. 

And not a damned one of them in the system has any right to say there is no place for violence in our politics, when they framed it out, put up the sheetrock, furnished it, and offered it for free as an alternative for speech that might hurt RonJohn's fee-fees, or make Jim Jordan feel his penis is even shorter. 

No, there is a place for violence, because Americans have been forced into that space, built, financed, and furnished by the duopoly that keeps saying that place does not exist. Duopolistic machinations have created a space for violence to thrive in our politics. Damn them all to hell for denying it exists, or that citizens even get to grasp that last opportunity to avoid serfdom. There is a place for political violence, and there will be more, because congressmen are choosing their voters, and reactionaries ON THE RIGHT continue to use inflammatory rhetoric that waters violent actions like rain from the heavens above. 

Don't be gaslit. There IS a place for political violence in America, and the two parties have built it for us.