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Opinion: Time to cool the rhetoric, Democrats

File photo/Morry Gash/The Associated Press / Democratic vice presidential nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz speaks at an event Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2024, in Madison, Wisconsin.
File photo/Morry Gash/The Associated Press / Democratic vice presidential nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz speaks at an event Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2024, in Madison, Wisconsin. File photo/Morry Gash/The Associated Press / Democratic vice presidential nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz speaks at an event Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2024, in Madison, Wisconsin.

Angry Democrats need to tone down the rhetoric.

Using “Nazi,” “fascism,” and “Gestapo” to describe ICE agents has resulted in the murders of innocent people. The left-wing ideology has now become as lethal as white supremacy.

Vulnerable people — sick would be a better word — can’t distinguish between rage and reality. So they lash out, believing they’ll be lionized.

We’re on a perilous road, and politicians have a duty to speak up, but they must do so with a modicum of professionalism.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz equating ICE as a “modern-day Gestapo” is hate speech.