The Washington Post calls for Trump's assassination

I had heard about this opinion piece by Washington Post editor Robert Kagan but only today was able to read it thanks to a Real Clear Politics link.  It's titled "A Trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable. We should stop pretending."

At first I thought it was partisan bluster, then I was bemused by the overwrought fan fiction of a hypothetical tyranny, but then it dawned on me that Kagan was all but calling for Trump's assassination.  The piece has references to Hitler (natch), Stalin, and Julius Caesar.  Having established that Trump's return would be apocalyptic, Kagan makes a call to action:

Are we going to do anything about it? To shift metaphors, if we thought there was a 50 percent chance of an asteroid crashing into North America a year from now, would we be content to hope that it wouldn’t? Or would we be taking every conceivable measure to try to stop it, including many things that might not work but that, given the magnitude of the crisis, must be tried anyway?

Emphasis mine.  From this paragraph to the end of the piece, Kagan uses language - consciously or not - that incites violence to stop Trump:

Yes, I know that most people don’t think an asteroid is heading toward us and that’s part of the problem. But just as big a problem has been those who do see the risk but for a variety of reasons have not thought it necessary to make any sacrifices to prevent it.

And:

Throughout these years, an understandable if fatal psychology has been at work. At each stage, stopping Trump would have required extraordinary action by certain people...

This is the concluding paragraph:

We are closer to that point today than we have ever been, yet we continue to drift toward dictatorship, still hoping for some intervention that will allow us to escape the consequences of our collective cowardice, our complacent, willful ignorance and, above all, our lack of any deep commitment to liberal democracy. As the man said, we are going out not with a bang but a whimper.

What kind of "bang" would you prefer, Mr. Kagan?

This is extraordinarily heated and dangerous rhetoric and in normal times I never would have thought it could get past a newspaper editor.  Shame on the Washington Post.

Extra - The American Spectator: "The Washington Post and a ‘Trump Dictatorship’ - Editor Robert Kagan frets about an imagined Trump dictatorship — but is silent on reality of Biden."