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Yeah, it's quite the marketplace of ideas when some asshole is out in the street hitting you in the head with a lead pipe.
And excluding from power those who should never hold it seems an an entirely reasonable feature of a legitimate polity.
That's obviously assault and should be prosecuted regardless of the content of the victim's speech (i.e. even if he deserved it). I'd probably offer to help the aggressor post bond though if the victim was spouting Nazi nonsense.
Exactly, and that's why voting is so important, as well as party norms. Parties are our first line of defense, primary elections are the second, and general elections are the third. If a wacko gets in power, we also have impeachment and other similar checks.
If all of those break down, I guess we need to resort to revolution if the person in power is dangerous enough, because the system obviously can't be rescued.