This is exactly it. The GOP’s whole framing is projection. They cry about the “RaDiCaL lEfT!!1!” while building the apparatus of authoritarianism in real time. Steven Crowder going back to doing his “The Left is Violent: Change My Mind” tour while right-wingers are the ones actually pulling triggers (eg the Trump and Kirk shootings) is the perfect microcosm of it. The ICE example makes it even clearer: you call out cruelty, and somehow that is the real incitement to violence. Not the masked, unmarked men kidnapping people off the street.
It’s Orwellian, and it only works because Democrats (with a few exceptions) keep answering fascism with strongly worded tweets instead of real checks on power. The “sorest winners” line hits the nail on the head: Republicans have everything in Washington, yet still have to invent bogeymen to keep their base scared and angry. The danger isn’t just that the right lies about where violence is coming from. It’s that they’re normalizing the violence they commit, and daring anyone to stop them.
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This is exactly it. The GOP’s whole framing is projection. They cry about the “RaDiCaL lEfT!!1!” while building the apparatus of authoritarianism in real time. Steven Crowder going back to doing his “The Left is Violent: Change My Mind” tour while right-wingers are the ones actually pulling triggers (eg the Trump and Kirk shootings) is the perfect microcosm of it. The ICE example makes it even clearer: you call out cruelty, and somehow that is the real incitement to violence. Not the masked, unmarked men kidnapping people off the street. It’s Orwellian, and it only works because Democrats (with a few exceptions) keep answering fascism with strongly worded tweets instead of real checks on power. The “sorest winners” line hits the nail on the head: Republicans have everything in Washington, yet still have to invent bogeymen to keep their base scared and angry. The danger isn’t just that the right lies about where violence is coming from. It’s that they’re normalizing the violence they commit, and daring anyone to stop them.