Oh, aggressive how? “Calling for a Christian travel ban” aggressive? or “phoning 911 on park cookouts and little girls selling water” aggressive? or “using your TV platform to mock a high school kid” aggressive? or “stockpiling weapons for the coming bloodletting” aggressive? or
Maybe “separating kids from parents” aggressive? or “prove your citizenship on this bus” aggressive? or “deport without due process” aggressive? or “abet coverup of conspiring with a foreign government to delegitimize elections” aggressive? or “trans bathroom law” aggressive? or
Perhaps “grab em by the pussy” aggressive? or “pardon the concentration camp sheriff” aggressive? or “nominate the pedo senate candidate” aggressive? or
“The left” hates fascism and bigotry and systemic injustice and isn’t going to be calm or quiet or incremental about it anymore. Sorry if you’re trying to sleep.
It’s so amazing to remember the tea party and right wingers screaming YOU LIE at the first black president and dressing up as Paul Revere and screaming about the watering the tree of liberty with patriots blood and the media just treated them like a bold new political movement.
The tea party wasn’t even talking about real things. It was all this Kenyan birth certificate Saul Alinsky muslim sleeper cell horseshit, yet we didn’t see 5000 op eds that were all “this is a disturbing trend of incivility” or “this is why Obama won.”
And Obama was nothing like what they were talking about
He never stopped talking about how theres one America, not two, yet the tea party never stopped blaming him for tearing the country apart with his racially charged rhetoric
It wasn’t a disturbing trend to David Brooks then
He never stopped talking about how theres one America, not two, yet the tea party never stopped blaming him for tearing the country apart with his racially charged rhetoric
It wasn’t a disturbing trend to David Brooks then
It’s endlessly revealing that fearful anger protecting unfair advantages, or anger resentful of well-earned criticism, is never dangerous. It’s always something the rest of us are admonished to listen to and understand and respect.
Only rage in service of justice is dangerous.
Only rage in service of justice is dangerous.
It’s endlessly revealing when people who claim to want peace exhibit greater concern for hypothetical future victims of a just rage that strives to protect, then they do for the actual present victims of an unjust rage that desires further harm.
