Build the wall!

Build it higher!

Make Mexico pay for the wall.

Ban all Muslims.

Accusations of Gestapo tactics. Mocking widows, making fun of people’s looks, calling people haters and losers, and issuing threats of physical force. Which include promises of a “rough” July if things don’t go his way and promises of “riots” at the GOP convention if there is any move towards a brokered convention.

This and more from Donald Trump, the campaign, and many of his followers has set the tone for this year’s election cycle. The tone is mean-spirited, hateful, and oftentimes times vicious. Just scroll through Facebook and Twitter and you’ll catch a glimpse of it. Last night, Costa Mesa, California got a dose of this ‘tone’ and divisiveness that the campaign has generated.