Nutzy Explains Away Right-Wing Violence - Mark Fiore - Political Cartoons
Republicans are once again tripping over themselves trying to explain away the fact that their extremist rhetoric has radicalized people and led to violence. Whether its the loopy conspiracy theories of the MAGA right or the more tame jokes of moderate Republicans, they all seem to have difficulty grasping the facts.
According to the San Francisco Police Department and the FBI, a man spouting the same nonsense as the Republican Party and its leaders turned words into action, broke into Speaker Nancy Pelosis house and fractured her husbands skull with a hammer. Apparently, the conspiracy theories and minimizing began approximately three seconds after the hammer blow was struck.
Its not surprising that a political movement built on macho chest-thumping, lies and violence would lead someone to commit a heinous act. Of course right-wingers will always point out instances when people on the left have talked violently or carried out political attacks the difference is that the left is not represented by a party that rallies around violence as a central tenet.
Not to mention, you dont find nearly as many Democrats shooting and blowing things up as a way to get votes.
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