Eliminationist Rhetoric: What will it take before virulent Trump-haters admit that their increasingly violent rhetoric is putting lives in danger?
Attacks on Republicans over the past few days show that the time for the left's reckoning is drawing near.
In case you haven't heard — which would not be surprising, given the general media blackout on such events — attacks on Republicans are increasing and increasingly dangerous.In just the past few days:
- A California resident attacked California GOP congressional candidate Rudy Peters with a switchblade. Witnesses said the assailant was spewing profanity-laced remarks about Trump and the Republican Party.
- A Republican Party office in Laramie, Wyoming caught fire — in what officials suspect was arson — just days after it opened.
- A deranged driver repeatedly rammed his truck into a local Fox News affiliate in Dallas, Texas.
- Also this week, a leftist threatened to commit mass slaughter at a "Make America Great" event at Trump's hotel in DC. "I am coming with a gun and i expect to get numerous bloodstained MAGA hats as trophies," the unnamed Twitter account holder tweeted.
Breitbart started collecting examples of attacks on Republicans and Trump supporters in recent months.
Their list is now over 550.
In the past couple days...
- Someone spat at a Hispanic immigrant woman wearing a Trump hat.
- A black man got kicked out of a bar for the same offense.
- Then there are the repeated calls — either explicit or implicit — to attack Republicans coming from prominent journalists, politicians and celebrities. MSNBC's Joe Scarborough used the 17th anniversary of 9/11 to declare President Trump a bigger threat to America than terrorists who killed 2,977 on that day — to say nothing of the hundreds who died later from 9/11-related cancers..."
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