Sen. Marco Rubio says that the tension Donald Trump cultivates at his rallies is worthy "of the Third World." He's overstating the case, and for that, Americans should count themselves lucky.
I have been to eight of Trump's rallies in several states over the last two months, and I have seen protesters removed or jeered at each one, but I have not seen anything that could be described as a serious brawl.
In Trump's months of campaigning before growing and fired-up audiences, some of them so large they packed stadiums, no one has been seriously injured — and that includes the police officer and two civilians who were briefly taken to a hospital after the canceled rally in Chicago on March 11. A punch, a reporter pushed to the ground: This is hardly the mayhem that sometimes accompanies politics in what Rubio calls "the Third World."