How the right encourages violence

Comment published on New York Times online blog in response to news article, ”Explosive Devices Found in Mail Sent to Hillary Clinton and Obama,” October 25, 2018:

All this may be related to the fact that rightist and conservative political organizations tend to be far less concerned with thinking than with winning. "By any means necessary." 

The irony is that right-wing governments have used the threat of political terrorism and violence, often exaggerated, to justify states of exception (such as the US has had since 9/11) and otherwise broad political repression of dissidents. It's ironic because it will mostly be used against liberals and the left, while if forces on the right are provoking it, they may get what they want in the government's response, even if that response is initially said to target them, and not their opponents who are the rightists' own targets. 

If people in either party, in "respectable" political groups, or in our government are saying things that encourage or give aid and comfort to the terrorists, there should be indictments. Not something like martial law, which could be just what the thugs ordered.