This entire movement on the right is underestimating how scummy and revolting decent people find this behavior.
But they will learn.
This is not how good people act. These are vultures circling a dead man who deserves much, much better.
Political violence has been and continues to be a problem on both sides, BUT the far-left has recently gone to far greater lengths to normalize and justify political violence by dehumanizing people they don't like or agree with. It's not even close. Look at the reaction after Brian Thompson was assassinated because of his job and a large segment of the far-left attempted to make his killer into a hero. Look at the open support for terrorism on college campuses. Academia is breeding a lot of this, unfortunately.
Most of the right, even at the extremes, views their opponents as dumb or wrong. The far-left increasingly views people they don't like as evil. There's a significant difference in what that justifies and the environment that creates. There are obviously plenty of exceptions. I have spent a lot of time calling out one particular podcast host who spends almost all her time trying to dehumanize groups of people and frame them as evil in the same way, but it is far less common.
This is emboldened by the fact that the far-left gets a pass on this stuff in the general discourse. We have entire media cycles blaming the right when political violence targets the left, but it is almost always deflected when it occurs in the other direction... which emboldens those who encourage it.
That's why we skipped the conversation when a Bernie supporter tried to kill a bunch of members of Congress on a baseball field, or when someone tried to assassinate a SCOTUS judge after months of attacks on the court, or even when someone tried to kill Trump.
The rhetoric isn't responsible for the political violence, but it creates an environment where such violence is seen as normal and justifiable. When it never should be.
I’m enjoying this. In response to nearly everything Trump has done, his defenders have shrieked “This is what we voted for,” “he told us he’d do this,” and “this is what he campaigned on.” Sometimes these claims have been a stretch. But when it comes to Iran not getting a bomb it’s all true. And now Tucker, MTG et al are crying that this isn’t what they voted for.
Deal with it.
Enormously funny that the company that got so bent out of shape by the supposedly oppressive conservatism of Florida has no issues with the United Arab Emirates, where you can be sent to jail for public blasphemy.
I certainly hope that at least half of this book is about the media's collective decision to collude with the Biden administration in hiding or otherwise choosing not to explore the obvious signs of Biden's decline and isolation.
Or else I'm not sure what the point of it is.
Republicans rubber stamping all these Trump picks is a good way to misread the results of these elections and set yourself up for an unpleasant 2026/8.
“Jim Crow on steroids,” huh? That’s what they called the new/current law, which also saw increased participation in the midterms, post-passage. Think about the ugly, racial lies they told — and remember the companies/organizations who bought into them: MLB, Delta Airlines, etc.
Quote from @MarkHalperin: " it is factually correct to say that this is the most progressive ticket of the modern era, besting Carter-Mondale and Mondale-Ferraro by a lot. Also factually correct: She chose the Bernie Sanders-approved candidate."
https://t.co/Kz6sk9m7Ko