When dealing with the crazy or the bloodthirsty, it is important to be consistent. It would have been wrong to blame Democratic presidential candidate and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., for the evil man who walked onto a baseball field and started shooting at Republican lawmakers last summer. It would be similarly misguided to blame President Trump for the serial bomber whom we now believe was Cesar Sayoc.

What’s more, Sayoc was violent and made bomb threats long before the current president even got involved in politics. He has been arrested for theft and stolen property, according to the Associated Press, and he was arrested in 2002 on charges of threatening to “throw, place, project or discharge any destructive device.”