Someone remind Matt Schlapp that Trump voters aren’t the violent ones

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Maybe it’s time to pull Matt Schlapp, chairman of the American Conservative Union, from the airwaves, at least until we can all forget about his airheaded remark that conservative voters (the people he’s supposed to lobby on behalf of) might actually physically attack a U.S. senator.

Conservatives were rightly irritated this week when they noted that the national media did everything they could to skip over the news about a man who allegedly drove a van straight into a Republican-led voter registration booth in Florida. The 27-year-old suspect, according to police, slammed into the registration center, sending volunteers scrambling, and then got out of his vehicle to take a video of the wreckage.

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