If elected to a second term, former President Donald Trump has openly pledged to issue pardons and apologies to hundreds of rioters who stormed the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. Multiple experts are arguing that doing so is a near sure-fire recipe for an escalation in political violence. Counterterrorism expert Tom Joscelyn, who served as a senior staff member to the House Select Committee on the January 6 attack, told NPR on Thursday that Trump charging “full speed ahead” as the “pro-Jan. 6 candidate” is a harbinger of a much darker chapter in American politics if the former president is vic…