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Seth Cotlar
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This is so shameless. It's hard for me to understand how any decent human could remain a member of this guy's GOP.
The shooter explicitly identified as a member of the conservative movement which produced Congressman Roy, and said he was frustrated that the mvmt wasn't more violent in asserting what it stood for. Projecting blame onto others is Nazi-level BS. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/a…
Of course he has. Of course he has.
The vast majority of Republicans like Roy seem to care less that their party has emboldened anti-semites and white nationalists across the country, some of whom have gone on to commit acts of terroristic violence. Until they disavow it, we should assume they welcome it.
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One way to think about Trump's relationship to the history of the GOP is that he is the apotheosis of one of their long-standing mantras: Love America, hate the government that represents it. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bre…
Or, in the language of the domestic abuser, "I love you so much, and that is why I have to kill you."
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Good thread putting the president's non-stop lying in the appropriate political and moral frame. It's not a personality quirk, it's an essential dimension of the norm-busting threat he poses to our constitutional system.
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I've lived 50 yrs as a Jew in the US.
# of incidents of leftist antisemitism I've experienced --> 0
# of incidents of conservative antisemitism I've personally endured --> too many to count.
There is antisemitism across the political spectrum, but it's not evenly spread.
I mean really, this shouldn't be this hard. There is homophobia everywhere in America. Is one equally likely to encounter it in San Francisco as in small town Wyoming?
There is racism everywhere in America. Is one equally likely to encounter it at a mall in a racially-diverse neighborhood, or at an all-white private swimming club in a gated community?
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