Thread by @EricLondonSEP

In Oct the @DemSocialists' mag, @jacobinmag denied Trump was plotting a coup & argued the plot against Whitmer was “exaggerated,” that the media is engaged in “sensationalism” and that there is no real threat of far-right violence today. @BrankoMilan

wsws.org/en/articles/20…

First, Jacobin reassures its readers that far-right violence “remains a statistically minor threat to life” in general.

Second, Jacobin writes that lending legitimacy to the plot only feeds hysteria over “terrorism” in general and helps Trump’s “threats to designate ‘antifa’ as a terrorist organization.”

Third, in a section titled “It’s all about entrapment,” Jacobin asserts the conspiracy was provoked by the FBI, writing, “There are more than enough warning signs that, with this case, the FBI may be up to its old Obama-era tricks, helping manufacture terrorist plots..."

Jacobin’s article then blames the media for giving too much attention to the plot:

“Unfortunately, rather than applying some measured skepticism and caution to the story, the press has largely treated it with sensationalistic bombast.” Jacobin adds...

...“So it’s up to not just the press, but the Left, too, to treat this case with the skepticism that all such FBI-involved terror plots deserve.” Jacobin attacks the Guardian, CNN and the New York Times for “giving the story a salaciously ominous framing” by calling it a “plot."

EDIT! @BrankoMilan did NOT write this article, Branko Marcetich (@BMarchetich) did. Twitter autofill.