By Someone attempted to assassinate Presidents Obama and Clinton today.
It wasn’t a spectacular plan. The would-be assassin mailed bombs to the homes of the Obamas and the Clintons. Both bombs were intercepted, examined, and deactivated by the Secret Service. Not exactly foolproof. But they still tried it. This follows the discovery of a similar bomb mailed to Democratic megadonor George Soros a few days ago. And a few hours after news of today’s attempted assassinations broke, another bomb arrived at CNN offices in New York, forcing an evacuation.
This says a lot about our politics today. None of it is good. Most of it can be blamed on the Republican party.
This is a party that has fanned the flames of hatred for years. It’s led by a man who called immigrants rapists, bragged about committing sexual assault, joked about shooting someone, expressed a desire to punch a protester in the face, praised a Congressman for bodyslamming a reporter, and couldn’t even condemn a murder committed by a Neo Nazi.
It goes way deeper than just him though. After all, the party voted for this guy in the first place.
This is a party that actively despises political correctness – or, as it’s otherwise known, basic human decency.
It’s a party that doesn’t want trans people to be able to even use the bathroom safely. (Now they’re trying to redefine trans people out of existence!)
It’s a party that celebrated when it thought it was on the verge of ripping healthcare away from 20 million plus Americans.
It’s a party that has stoked racial hatred for nearly 60 years for the sake of winning elections.
Hell, there’s a not insignificant chunk of this party that thinks the Obamas and Clintons ran a secret pedophile ring and that the Newtown massacre was a hoax.
God forbid anyone yell at them though.
This party has lost its mind. The attempts on the lives of the Obamas and Clintons are not really a turning point. They’re just another example of the horrifying culture Republicans are cultivating, a culture so disgusting that a Neo Nazi committing murder in broad daylight somehow became a partisan issue.
That’s not to say that this violence is exclusive to the Republican Party. It’s certainly not. The man who attempted to assassinate members of the GOP Congressional baseball team in 2017 participated in Occupy Wall Street and was an ardent Bernie backer. The use of extreme violence for political ends is clearly not isolated to just Republicans.
The difference, though? There’s no track record of Democrats calling for this violence. There’s no track record of Democrats trafficking in insane conspiracy theories. There’s no track record of the simple, pure cruelty that characterizes the modern GOP. Bernie Sanders made a speech condemning that shooter hours after the incident, and he’s never had a kind word for the shooter or any would-be imitators.
This is all the result of the GOP’s actions, plain and simple. For all their whining about civility, they created this world.
Now we all have to live in it.
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