re: #88 sagehen

When they didn’t feel sufficiently represented in government, their activists most certainly did. Yitzhak Rabin was killed by a settler who didn’t think his gov’t energetically represented his faction, and Baruch Goldstein was similarly expressing his political beliefs when he killed more than a dozen and injured a hundred more at the Cave of the Patriarchs. Timothy McVeigh, Eric Rudolph and Scott Roeder were all trying to make political points.

The only thing keeping Barak Obama alive is tens of thousands of Secret Service working very, very hard.

Neither Goldstein nor McVeigh can be considered representative of a mainstream political party, though. (I chose the two most deadly ones to keep the point simple.) Lunatics sometimes have a political motive, but that does not mean a party is responsible for them.