Earlier this week, the FBI — executing a lawful warrant and with the approval of the United States attorney general himself — searched Donald Trump’s gaudy Mar-a-Lago club/residence in Florida.

The search was at least in part related to an investigation into whether Donald Trump illegally took classified and top secret documents from the White House.

MAGA militants, irresponsible “journalists” at right-wing outlets like Fox News, and even many Republican elected officials have reacted by calling for violence and outright civil war. Over a search warrant.

And the two most powerful Republicans in Congress — Senator Mitch McConell and Representative Kevin McCarthy — haven’t uttered so much as a single word denouncing this incendiary rhetoric.

Not even after an armed Trump adherent (who may have taken part in the January 6 insurrection) mounted a one-man assault on an FBI field office in Cincinnati, Ohio. (The man was fatally shot by police after a car chase, a multi-hour standoff, and failed attempts at negotiation.)

Experts in political violence are sounding the alarm. The spread — and acceptance — of threats and calls to arms makes actual political violence much more likely. Supposed leaders must loudly reject such dangerous rhetoric.

Tell Sen. Mitch McConnell and Rep. Kevin McCarthy:

Even if you think the FBI’s search of Mar-a-Lago should not have happened, shame on you for not doing everything in your power to tone down and condemn the incendiary rhetoric coming from so many of your fellow Republicans, which has already led to real-world violence and death. There’s a very real risk that you are enabling much worse violence to come. It’s not too late for you to act.

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