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There's something in the water at The New York Times. dailysign.al/2yLUbhC via @benshapiro @DailySignal

@benshapiro @DailySignal We’re fighting one another for one simple reason: Too many on the political left have become accustomed to castigating the character of those who disagree with the left on policy.

@benshapiro @DailySignal Favor tougher border controls? This puts you on the side of the white supremacist terrorist.
Believe in Second Amendment rights? You’re a vicious, violent cretin covering for those who commit acts of evil.

@benshapiro @DailySignal Cite Western civilization as a source of our common values, believe that police forces across the United States are not systemically racist, —in short, disagree with the program of the American left? Most of all, consider voting for Donald Trump? You’re an accessory to murder.

@benshapiro @DailySignal Now, there are many on the political left who are too smart for this sort of specious reasoning and character assassination. But not everyone. Charles Blow of The NYTimes, writes in a column this week that “terrorists” and “policymakers” are the two “sides of white nationalism.”

@benshapiro @DailySignal Blow clarifies: “White nationalist terrorists—young and rash—and white nationalist policymakers—older and more methodical—live on parallel planes, both aiming in the same direction, both with the same goal: To maintain and ensure white dominance and white supremacy.”

@benshapiro @DailySignal Who, pray tell, are these evil white nationalist policymakers? Those who favor “border walls, anti-immigrant laws, voter suppression, and packing the courts.”

@benshapiro @DailySignal Never mind that many advocates of border security also advocate broader legal immigration. Never mind that nobody actually favors voter suppression.
To Blow, an “R” next to your name signifies merely a less militant Nazism than your neighborhood Hitler Youth.

@benshapiro @DailySignal David Leonhardt of The NY Times similarly argued this week that “American conservatism has a violence problem.”
While admitting that conservative America “is mostly filled with honorable people who deplore violence and bear no responsibility for right-wing hate killings”....

@benshapiro @DailySignal ....and that “liberal America also has violent and deranged people,” Leonhardt lays the blame for an increase in political violence at the feet of “mainstream conservative politicians,” who are somehow connected to “right-wing extremists.”

@benshapiro @DailySignal There’s something in the water at The New York Times, obviously. Jamelle Bouie, another voice on the Times opinion page, suggested a “connection between white nationalism” and my personal “ideological project.”

@benshapiro @DailySignal Never mind that I’ve been perhaps the loudest voice on the right decrying white nationalism for years; that I firmly fight for particular Western civilized values and small-government conservatism that foreclose and despise racism; ....

@benshapiro @DailySignal ....that I’ve incurred hundreds of thousands of dollars in security costs for my trouble; that I require 24/7 security to protect me from white nationalist blowback; and that just weeks ago, the FBI arrested a white nationalist threatening to murder me.

@benshapiro @DailySignal There can be no unity when one side of the political aisle firmly believes the other side is motivated by unmitigated evil. No decent conversation about fixes can be had when you assume the person sitting across from you sympathizes with monsters who go to shoot up a Walmart

@benshapiro @DailySignal If we can’t at least assume that we’re all on the same page in condemning white supremacist terror attacks and white supremacist ideology, we may as well pack this republic in. We’re done.