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Wed Jul 12, 2017, 06:36 PM Jul 2017

Post Nation Organized anarchy: The NRAs new dark video talks politics, not guns

By Alex Horton at the Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/07/11/organized-anarchy-the-nras-new-dark-video-talks-politics-not-guns/?utm_term=.d6a8fd6594e3

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Dom Raso, one of the most prominent of the NRA’s growing stable of video commentators, condemns Democratic politicians, the media and activists as the catalysts for political upheaval in the United States, a narrative that has been pushed by pro-Trump Internet personalities.

In the video, Raso, an outspoken former Navy SEAL, decries a “media motivated by extreme ideology” during montages that include Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.), CNN anchor Don Lemon and Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), a civil rights leader, juxtaposed with images of protests by anti-fascist, or “antifa,” activists.

“I’m disgusted that we as Americans are accepting to live with these conditions,” Raso said in the video titled “Organized Anarchy,” which had earned 2.6 million views on Facebook by Tuesday afternoon, after it was posted Sunday.

In the NRA-produced video, a rifle makes an appearance only at the very end if the viewer looks closely: a soldier with the 101st Airborne Division clutching one in his left hand.

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