• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    They say calling Trump a threat to democracy is violent rhetoric.

    They aren’t strictly wrong. When Republicans insisted that Clinton, Obama, and Biden were a threat to democracy, they absolutely intended it as a call to violence.

    The hiccup in their reasoning is that the shooter was one of their dudes. The “Trump is a threat to democracy” line isn’t just a GOTV message among Dems. Its an ear-splitting dog whistle from the secessionists and white nationalists who see Jared Kushner as a shadowy (((puppet master))) working Trump’s strings. This call came from inside the GOP’s own house.

    Grasping at all the straws in the world.

    Not at all. This is pure projection. Republicans shooting at Republicans, while everyone points at the other and shouts “Double Secret Antifa Infiltrator!” They’ve drunk their own Deep State kool-aid and now they’ve got the long knives out for one another.

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      Its an ear-splitting dog whistle from the secessionists and white nationalists who see Jared Kushner as a shadowy (((puppet master))) working Trump’s strings. This call came from inside the GOP’s own house.

      Are we going to make calling out Trumpism anti-semetic now?

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        Its an attitude common to American ultra-nationalists. When you see reactionaries, particularly on the AM Talk Radio circuit, turn on Trump, there’s inevitably a deep strain of anti-semetism used to justify it.

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          Yep because of course great leader Trump can’t be doing anything wrong, it must be others manipulating him and among the right others always ends up meaning Jews.

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            great leader Trump can’t be doing anything wrong

            He could learn to duck. Dude’s lucky there wasn’t a second gunman or he’d have been dead for sure.