text:  that just as rhetoric can escalate, violent rhetoric and incendiary rhetoric can escalate support for political violence, calming rhetoric can de-escalate. Now, maybe not go all the way to zero, but it is something that can really happen. Now, the reason politicians don't do it is because they have to speak to their own supporters. It's easy for a Democrat to criticize violence from a Republican side and vice versa. The really hard thing is