Homicides are up, fatal car accidents are up. I suggest it's a combination of factors (that's always a safe suggestion):
- the pandemic, obviously. We've built up a lot of frustration as we've had to adapt to change.
- Trump. Leaders can set the tone. In the former guy's case the tone he set was to act out your emotions, to be angry at situations you can't control, and to bully the people you can. (Wrote this yesterday, but see AOC making a similar point today--the tone set from the top can matter.
AOC links Gosar's video to a "nihilism" among Republicans holding that nothing Congress does really matters or is meaningful pic.twitter.com/zFYlFwI3f9
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 17, 2021) - for homicides, there's likely been an impact on policing from the "defund police" etc.
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