The entire media discussion of right wing rhetoric is overwhelmingly conducted in vague generalities. The question is, "Can't we tone down the angry rhetoric", and the answer is that "Expressing political anger should not be deemed unacceptable. Progressives expressed intense anger and concern during the Bush years." But we are never reminded of the campaign of explicitly VIOLENT rhetoric and demonization. The media is arranging the coverage so that the question of literal INCITEMENT is never even raised.
I would like to see a major network assemble ten or twenty video clips of actual "calls to arms", and direct support for murder as a political response. This is what is of concern to me. When heated death threats (or references to violent retribution) are frequently made by members of Congress, shouldn't that be newsworthy? The right is normalizing violence against Dems, intimidating the entire political process. This is terrorist propaganda.
Most recently, a moderate Republican precinct captain won a heated election over a Tea Party member. He then began to receive death threats; so he (and four other officials) resigned to protect their families. That was a Tea Party coup. Effective use of intimidation made it bloodless, so I guess it will be accepted as just an effective metaphor.