WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has long wielded sharp rhetoric as a political weapon — who can forget “Crooked Hillary” Clinton or “Sleepy Joe” Biden? — but in his second term, the president’s language and that of his top aides has taken an even darker turn.

Rather than just suggesting Democrats and other opponents are incompetent, Trump and his supporters have increasingly cast their critics, including other elected officials, as illegitimate and even dangerous. Just in the past few weeks, they’ve described Democratic senators who continue to reject a Republican budget deal as negotiating like “terrorists” and said those attending Saturday’s nationwide anti-Trump “No Kings” rallies “hate America.” The president himself went so far as to say last week that Democrats follow “the dev

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