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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump's Party Is the Petri Dish for Diseased Minds That Grew The MAGA BOMBER
Rush Limbaugh, the most influential conservative talk show host in the country, and a man whom Republicans made an honorary member of the 1995 freshman class in recognition of his role in helping them win the House majority, explained recently that the still-anonymous bomber could not be on the political right. Republicans just dont do this kind of thing, he explained. From the Haymarket riot to the Unabomber, bombs are a liberal tactic, added Ann Coulter.
The discovery that the person suspected of mailing bombs to various figures Donald Trump has described as enemy threats is in fact a Trump-supporting Republican has necessitated a change in emphasis. Whereas before conservatives insisted the bombers method told us everything we needed to know about his ideology, now they insist it tells us nothing at all about his ideology. Crazy person attacks Republican Congresspeople: blame the crazy. Crazy person sends bombs to Democrats: blame the Republicans, tweets right-wing commentator Ben Shapiro, whose analysis was recirculated by Donald Trump Jr.
It is of course true that the overwhelming majority of Republicans are not violent. It is likewise true that nothing about conservative ideology or its program requires violent action. Nonetheless, the relationship between the two parties and violence is not symmetrical, and the fact that alleged bomber Cesar Sayoc had a strong identification with Trump and his partisan message is not a coincidence. The Republican Party encompasses an extremist fringe that nurtures violence in a way the Democratic Party does not.
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The Republican Party, on the other hand, has followed a course that has made its rhetoric amenable to extremism. Republican radicalism enabled the rise of a conspiratorial authoritarian president, and that president has expanded the bounds of the partys following farther out to the fringe. It is getting harder and harder to distinguish the normal elements of conservatism from the kook parts. That some of those kooks would resort to violence is not an accident but a statistical likelihood. Trumps party is a petri dish for diseased minds.
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/10/bomber-cesar-sayoc-is-trump-republican-extremism.html
The discovery that the person suspected of mailing bombs to various figures Donald Trump has described as enemy threats is in fact a Trump-supporting Republican has necessitated a change in emphasis. Whereas before conservatives insisted the bombers method told us everything we needed to know about his ideology, now they insist it tells us nothing at all about his ideology. Crazy person attacks Republican Congresspeople: blame the crazy. Crazy person sends bombs to Democrats: blame the Republicans, tweets right-wing commentator Ben Shapiro, whose analysis was recirculated by Donald Trump Jr.
It is of course true that the overwhelming majority of Republicans are not violent. It is likewise true that nothing about conservative ideology or its program requires violent action. Nonetheless, the relationship between the two parties and violence is not symmetrical, and the fact that alleged bomber Cesar Sayoc had a strong identification with Trump and his partisan message is not a coincidence. The Republican Party encompasses an extremist fringe that nurtures violence in a way the Democratic Party does not.
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The Republican Party, on the other hand, has followed a course that has made its rhetoric amenable to extremism. Republican radicalism enabled the rise of a conspiratorial authoritarian president, and that president has expanded the bounds of the partys following farther out to the fringe. It is getting harder and harder to distinguish the normal elements of conservatism from the kook parts. That some of those kooks would resort to violence is not an accident but a statistical likelihood. Trumps party is a petri dish for diseased minds.
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/10/bomber-cesar-sayoc-is-trump-republican-extremism.html
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Trump's Party Is the Petri Dish for Diseased Minds That Grew The MAGA BOMBER (Original Post)
DemocratSinceBirth
Oct 2018
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MontanaMama
(23,322 posts)1. There are more where THAT came from unfortunately.
The next 10 days could be dicey. If the Blue Wave is successful, they could really lose their shit between Election Day and when we actually take congress back.
dalton99a
(81,516 posts)2. And Trump himself is a powerful catalyst