Let’s be really clear about something: Ryan Routh is responsible for his attempted assassination of Donald Trump with an AK-47. The same applies to James Hodgkinson, Floyd Lee Corkins, Thomas Matthew Crooks, and multiple other insane progressive individuals who have tried to kill people on the right.
However, it’s equally relevant that an overwhelming majority of recent shooters have been inspired by language from the left. On a regular basis, MSNBC compares Donald Trump to Hitler with dystopian depictions of a second Trump presidency being The Handmaid’s Tale come to life. Democrats regularly claim that Trump is a threat to democracy and must be stopped by any means possible.
But the right is not immune from hyperbolic statements grounded in no semblance of reality. People on the right gladly bought the bogus story about someone with an affidavit claiming that Kamala Harris was given the debate questions in advance. People on the right have bought and spread the thoroughly debunked story of Haitians eating house cats.
But the difference is that - to my knowledge - only people on the left are attempting to kill Donald Trump, Steve Scalise, everyone at the Family Research Council, and dozens of kids at a Christian elementary school in Nashville. Where is the violence against progressives? And don’t say Gabby Giffords because that guy was politically all over the map.
If the fringes of only one side are routinely radicalized by that side’s message to perpetrate acts of violence, when will there be any accountability?
"People on the right gladly bought the bogus story about someone with an affidavit claiming that Kamala Harris was given the debate questions in advance. People on the right have bought and spread the thoroughly debunked story of Haitians eating house cats."
When did the affidavit story become fake? And Chris Rufo proved the basis of the house cat story. It is true. Besides which, neither of those stories is anything like the left's vitriol. It's not even close. So stop with the moral equivalence.
Google: Politically motivated violence...
VOX: 5 causes — and accelerants — of political violence
The first 2 1/2 paragraphs start with the first assination attempt of Trump. The article says we don't know enough to say if it was politically motivated and ultimately it not not be deemed political.
In the middle of the third paragraph...
Since Trump’s 2016 election, the US has seen the Charlottesville protests, the 2018 Tree of Life shooting, the 2022 Buffalo shooting, and the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot...
I will say it again, my dad has watched ABC News all his life, he still says we don't know the motives of Hodgkinson because he was killed.
There is no accountability on the Left because they project their behavior onto the Right. It a collective mass psychos.