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Candidates running for House and Senate offices increased campaign spending on security by more than 500 percent between the 2020 election and the 2022 midterms, a new Washington Post analysis of filings with the Federal Election Commission found, a measure of the extraordinary rise in threats against elected officials in recent years and the country’s increasingly volatile political climate.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/09/18/congress-security-spending-violence-threats/
There is nothing wrong with lawmakers being afraid of the citizenry. Why should citizens be more afraid of lawmakers?