In his lifetime of public service, state Rep. James Thibault of Franklin said he’s had “only one death threat.”

Rep. Thibault, 19 years old, is the youngest legislator in the United States.

Already, he’s had a death threat.

In June, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered at their home in what the U.S. attorney called a “political assassination.” A state senator and his wife were shot but survived. And in September, conservative activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated while speaking on a college campus.

After these events, the Josiah Bartlett Center announced the revival of our Civil Discourses event series, designed to bring Granite Staters together for civil conversations on important political and cultural topics.

American political culture is decaying. De

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