Everything about the Rittenhouse situation is terrifying: He showed up with big gun at a protest for racial justice to terrify people, to silence free speech. He killed a bunch of people with his big gun. The mainstream Republican Party made him a hero.
https://twitter.com/GregAbbott_TX/status/1461760831989899278
Before the trial even started, we were facing a situation where the Republican Party was encouraging people to bring big guns to protests to terrify people, letting everyone know the Republican Party would elevate & support people who terrorize people: even when they kill.
There is not hint of sadness or concern about the people Rittenhouse killed, wounded, or otherwise terrorized, because they actually want that. They see violence as a key/necessary mechanism to maintain white rule.
Fact Rittenhouse was then found innocent is just going to lower the cost to terrorizing people, but even more frightening for all of US is that the Republican Party was already embracing terrorism.
Replies to this thread are very informative: mostly of some form of these protestors had it coming. Self-defense is a convenient legal strategy, but to his supporters it is just a legal rationale for terrorizing (and killing) protestors.
And, just read through the quote-tweets which are a little less informative: almost all are some form of I the poster noting that I am Jew, so I should just shut-up.
Mainstream media wants US to believe, to be comforted, that socially moderate, pro-big-corporation Republicans are still in charge of their Party (not that that should comfort anyone), but ...
Last night @GOPLeader sang an 8.5 hour love song to the white supremacists on Twitter & Mar A-Lago: they control the Republican Party, and they are very prepared to use violence to maintain white rule.
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