Donald Trump’s rivals in both parties denounced his candidacy as the match that lit the fire

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Donald Trump’s Heated Words Were Destined to Stir Violence, Opponents Say

By MICHAEL BARBARO, ASHLEY PARKER and TRIP GABRIELMARCH 12, 2016
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Secret Service agents and security guards surrounded Donald J. Trump after a disturbance during a rally near Dayton, Ohio, on Saturday. Credit Victor J. Blue for The New York Times

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In foreboding conversations across the political world this past year, a bipartisan chorus warned that the 2016 presidential campaign was teetering on the edge of violence.
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The anger from both sides was so raw, they concluded — from supporters of Donald J. Trump who are terrified they are losing their country and from protesters who fear he is leading the nation down a dark road of hate — that a dreaded moment was starting to look inevitable. “I don’t see where that anger goes,” the historian Heather Cox Richardson predicted a few weeks ago, “except into violence.”

This weekend it finally arrived.

The ugly and chaotic clashes that unfolded on Friday inside a tense Chicago arena between Trump supporters and a coalition of protesters were the culmination of an extraordinarily indignant year in public life in which those on both sides of a widening divide have begun to see their fellow Americans as a fundamental threat to their economic future and basic dignity...........................................

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1. He's not the match; he's an orange trash dumpster on fire

And his rivals are no better.