Probably won't, but we've never had a candidate say from the bully pulpit that the election is rigged. We've never had a VP candidate have to tell a town hall participant that armed rebellion is not something he endorses.
On the conservative blogs there is a change in language from 2008 and 2012. The mood then was, "This is bad, but we can work on it, we can fight back." Now the mood is, "If we can't win this year, we can't win at all, and this puts new options on the table."
Just my read.
I dunno--last time I was on this forum was 2009-2010 and there were quite a few posts talking about armed rebellion--sometimes under the breath, sometimes outright, so I don't feel like this is new (and this forum isn't really extreme). Things seems calmer right now than it did back then. Maybe I'm wrong, though.
The difference now is you have someone very high up (Trump) giving that idea legitimacy. Last time around you had the candidates themselves telling people to calm down, now it's just Pence telling people to calm down--but Trump is telling people to get riled up.
My Facebook feed...that's hard to tell. During the Obama run it was full of openly racist stuff and that's not here now (obviously), but there's a lot of "Killary". Lots of sex jokes about the Clintons. I don't see much violence, though, related to the elections.
I think things were more tense when the BLM (not Black Lives Matter--the other BLM) stuff was ongoing. That was the high water mark.
I hope Hillary leaves guns alone after she's elected--Obama was smart to leave that alone for the most part. Clinton is more likely to try and do something though and that's more likely to escalate to bad situations.
Prediction for 2018: Everyone one both sides wishes Obama was back in office and Hillary doesn't stand a chance in 2020--unless the RNC manages to shoot itself in the head again.
