Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal sometimes acts as a counterweight to Fox News’ evening shows, leaning back toward reason. It doesn’t take much political development to see the danger Trump brings to the national political scene. Last week, when Trump said McConnell’s actions meant McConnell had a death wish, all capital letters in the original, it was read as a call to action. There was no way to get around it. It often appears that Trump wants to normalize violent political responses.

and the Wall Street Editorial Board Saw enough:

We live in a polarized political age where frenzied revolutionaries need no provocation to resort to violence. This makes Donald Trump’s latest verbal attack on Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell all the more reckless.

The “death wish” rhetoric is ugly even by Mr. Trump’s standards and deserves condemnation. Trump’s defenders claim he only meant that McConnell had a political death wish, but that’s not what he wrote.

No, that’s not what he wrote, and he emphasized this particular aspect of his letter by transposing it in all capital letters, as in “Hear me!”

It is all too easy to imagine a fanatic taking Mr. Trump seriously and literally, and trying to kill Mr. McConnell. Trump’s speech about former Vice President Mike Pence on Jan. 6 was taken seriously by many supporters.

Five weeks into Election Day, Mr. Trump could work and spend money to elect a Republican Congress or to help his state, Florida, recover from Hurricane Ian.

However, this is not Donald Trump. He certainly wouldn’t go roaming devastated societies. He definitely sees that as a waste of his personal time that he could have been golfing or grieving. The next boat convoy will wait, which will be some time on the Gulf Coast. As for helping elect a Republican Congress, Trump only does so in the context of 100-minute speeches at “rallies: during which he celebrates himself while also unleashing his anger, that’s how Trump finds himself tearing at Mitch McConnell.”

Instead, he attacks Mr. McConnell and his wife as part of a personal political vendetta, Each Republican candidate was placed on the spot to answer questions about Trump’s speech. Trump always puts himself first, and with this speech he may put others at real risk of harm.

Wonderful summary. The personal political vendetta has to do with the fact that McConnell did not keep Trump personally in the White House, as if that were possible. And yes, Trump’s wrath poses an increasingly real risk of harm, both individually as Mitch McConnell, and more generally in terms of his statement about how “Americans will not stand up for Trump being indicted, his supporters rioting and lashing out with violence if charged.” .

Trump has already incentivized indiscriminate terrorism in the past (El Paso, Jan. 6) and is pushing it even more aggressively now.