Who is to blame?

The New York Post nails it.

Don’t blame Trump for violence at his rallies

Democrats and "people of color" are wrecking the political process and blaming it all on Trump and his followers.

At worst, Trump talks nasty, and when things got a bit rough at his past rallies (they always get rough at rallies when left wing hecklers can make it happen) the anti-Trump noise machine made him and his supporters out to be brownshirts, encouraging and excusing in advance organized and sometimes violent disruption by the left that has since materialized in large supply, aimed at shutting down his events altogether.

Today, Democrats and their tools are all over the web and the media, urging against Trump a racist twist of the "fighting words" doctrine, of a piece with left wing justifications for Muslim violence "incited" by slights against Islam.

Remember the rush by Hillary and Obama to blame some hapless author of an Internet video mocking Mohammed for the Benghazi disaster, in fact an al-Qaeda terrorist attack planned well in advance to coincide with the anniversary of 9/11?

The Post Editorial Board has it exactly right.

Blaming Donald Trump even in part for the violence that has broken out at his rallies is nonsense.

This is the same left-wing agitation that has plagued the nation for decades now, a rage that fixes on one target of opportunity after another.

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Yes, Trump has been brusque with protesters at his events — but if he were inciting violence in any real way, you’d see Trumpites disrupting other candidates’ gatherings.

Instead, Americans trying to leave Friday’s Trump rally in Chicago — the one canceled over fears of violence — had to wade through angry mobs outside.

Again, all the violence comes from lefties going to someone else’s event to make trouble — and, as in Chicago, celebrating with chants of “We won” and “We stopped Trump” when they managed to get the event canceled.

As one Reddit poster, a self-described legal immigrant of color who saw the Chicago madness firsthand, put it: “I saw a quiet, but excited crowd of Donald Trump supporters get thrown out of Chicago.

“Worst of all, I saw the First Amendment trampled, spit on, and discarded like trash.”