Two problems with this. First, the GOP is not 'ignoring warnings of violence.' The GOP actively encourages violence towards its political opponents by embracing the people who embrace violent rhetoric, up to and including the former president. Loomer is no longer on the fringe of the party, she is in the dead center of the party. And the…
Two problems with this. First, the GOP is not 'ignoring warnings of violence.' The GOP actively encourages violence towards its political opponents by embracing the people who embrace violent rhetoric, up to and including the former president. Loomer is no longer on the fringe of the party, she is in the dead center of the party. And the dead center actively waits for the moment when they can start murdering people with wild abandon in the name of freedom. It might be hard to claim that your former home is a cesspool of hate and violence, but it is. And the GOP knows exactly what it's doing. It hopes that increased violence and threats will subdue democrats and let the GOP do whatever it wants.
The question will be: after someone commits mass murder again, will the GOP writ large embrace the murderer the way they did Babbitt? That's the question you should be asking. It's not a question of if. It's a question of when.
As for that CRT in Virginia thing, there's a problem. 1. CRT being 'entertained' is not 'CRT is in Virginia.' And also, you cannot 'move towards the center' when the center is actively seeking to unperson people of color. But let's ignore all that for a moment. Where exactly is the 'center' of this issue? Because what the GOP does is demonize and repeat lies and stake out extreme positions, thus moving the 'center' to a place that is not a center at all. Let's take the birth certificate issue, another entirely made up issue that didn't exist. Except the GOP yelled about it long enough, and the 'center' moved to the point where actual media were asking about it, thus legitimizing it. That's where we're at now, yet again. The GOP screams about 'CRT,' a term no one can actually define, and in places like Texas they're banning words from being spoken because that's the 'center.' You cannot kowtow to these people, because these people are absolutists. They will hit you regardless of whether you try to placate them or not, because they are working to destroy you. And this process of 'well, maybe we should move toward the center' as it keeps moving right is how we get things like Loomer being embraced by the GOP.
Here's the truth that no one wants to accept: in order for democrats to win, they need to do things. In order to do things, they need to be unapologetically democrats. That means being liberals. That means actually building enthusiasm. Because the GOP is going to be enthusiastic no matter what, as they view all political races as death struggles with Satan now. So in order to actually defeat them, you need to actually be what you claim to be, none of this Manchin/Sinema 'well I run on it but don't believe it' stuff. The reason democrats are in such a state in VA is because the guy running for governor didn't say what everyone is thinking, which is that CRT is an undefinable term that is being used by bigots to support white supremacy. And if you don't believe that, look at what they do when they pass anti-CRT bills, which ban words like 'equity' from being used in classrooms of any kind. Good luck teaching economics!
Furthermore, let's stop pretending inflation is a plague upon our nation. We've suffered 3% inflation at most. The cause of the inflation is not any policy by the government, but people going back to work and having the ability and confidence to buy things, thus lowering supply before producers have adjusted. It is not a 'tax' as Mona claims in her piece. Inflation is no more a tax than the price of your home going up is a tax. That's nonsense. Beyond that, just a few years ago, the GOP was championing inflation as a GOOD thing, as a lower dollar value makes it easier to invest. All I'm saying is, we're not living through an economic catastrophe at the moment, so the media should stop screaming about inflation.
"after someone commits mass murder again, will the GOP writ large embrace the murderer the way they did Babbitt?"
Don't forget, they embraced Kyle Rittenhouse from the start, and they way his trial is going he's probably going to get off. A 17-year-old carrying a machine gun around to "protect" a community he doesn't even live in, in a state he doesn't live in, is a GOP hero.
Two problems with this. First, the GOP is not 'ignoring warnings of violence.' The GOP actively encourages violence towards its political opponents by embracing the people who embrace violent rhetoric, up to and including the former president. Loomer is no longer on the fringe of the party, she is in the dead center of the party. And the dead center actively waits for the moment when they can start murdering people with wild abandon in the name of freedom. It might be hard to claim that your former home is a cesspool of hate and violence, but it is. And the GOP knows exactly what it's doing. It hopes that increased violence and threats will subdue democrats and let the GOP do whatever it wants.
The question will be: after someone commits mass murder again, will the GOP writ large embrace the murderer the way they did Babbitt? That's the question you should be asking. It's not a question of if. It's a question of when.
As for that CRT in Virginia thing, there's a problem. 1. CRT being 'entertained' is not 'CRT is in Virginia.' And also, you cannot 'move towards the center' when the center is actively seeking to unperson people of color. But let's ignore all that for a moment. Where exactly is the 'center' of this issue? Because what the GOP does is demonize and repeat lies and stake out extreme positions, thus moving the 'center' to a place that is not a center at all. Let's take the birth certificate issue, another entirely made up issue that didn't exist. Except the GOP yelled about it long enough, and the 'center' moved to the point where actual media were asking about it, thus legitimizing it. That's where we're at now, yet again. The GOP screams about 'CRT,' a term no one can actually define, and in places like Texas they're banning words from being spoken because that's the 'center.' You cannot kowtow to these people, because these people are absolutists. They will hit you regardless of whether you try to placate them or not, because they are working to destroy you. And this process of 'well, maybe we should move toward the center' as it keeps moving right is how we get things like Loomer being embraced by the GOP.
Here's the truth that no one wants to accept: in order for democrats to win, they need to do things. In order to do things, they need to be unapologetically democrats. That means being liberals. That means actually building enthusiasm. Because the GOP is going to be enthusiastic no matter what, as they view all political races as death struggles with Satan now. So in order to actually defeat them, you need to actually be what you claim to be, none of this Manchin/Sinema 'well I run on it but don't believe it' stuff. The reason democrats are in such a state in VA is because the guy running for governor didn't say what everyone is thinking, which is that CRT is an undefinable term that is being used by bigots to support white supremacy. And if you don't believe that, look at what they do when they pass anti-CRT bills, which ban words like 'equity' from being used in classrooms of any kind. Good luck teaching economics!
Furthermore, let's stop pretending inflation is a plague upon our nation. We've suffered 3% inflation at most. The cause of the inflation is not any policy by the government, but people going back to work and having the ability and confidence to buy things, thus lowering supply before producers have adjusted. It is not a 'tax' as Mona claims in her piece. Inflation is no more a tax than the price of your home going up is a tax. That's nonsense. Beyond that, just a few years ago, the GOP was championing inflation as a GOOD thing, as a lower dollar value makes it easier to invest. All I'm saying is, we're not living through an economic catastrophe at the moment, so the media should stop screaming about inflation.
"after someone commits mass murder again, will the GOP writ large embrace the murderer the way they did Babbitt?"
Don't forget, they embraced Kyle Rittenhouse from the start, and they way his trial is going he's probably going to get off. A 17-year-old carrying a machine gun around to "protect" a community he doesn't even live in, in a state he doesn't live in, is a GOP hero.