Threat of violence now drives politics

Threat of violence now drives politics
Threat of violence now drives politics

Maybe I'm losing my mojo. For all the chatter about political violence out there, this column hasn't drawn a death threat in months. Maybe not even this calendar year.

They used to come in fairly regularly. One time, a junior high gym teacher in Pennsylvania said he was coming to get me over a smartaleck joke about the baleful effects of civics education by football coaches. Another guy used to sen…