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Huffington Post Op-Ed: ‘A Violent Response to Trump Is as Logical as Any’
The Blaze ^ | June 8, 2016 | Kate Scanlon

Posted on 06/08/2016 10:50:58 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

One Huffington Post writer has taken up the argument that “a violent response” is the “logical” approach to the candidacy of presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump

Writer Jesse Benn wrote in a recent op-ed, “[T]here’s an inherent value in forestalling Trump’s normalization. Violent resistance accomplishes this.”

In a piece aimed at liberals who have condemned violence at Trump rallies, Benn argued that those who say violence is always “unacceptable and counterproductive” ignore “the history of successful violent insurrection in the US, instead favoring the elementary school version of history in which nonviolence is the only means of struggle that’s ever achieved a thing.”

Benn wrote that Trump doesn’t represent a “political disagreement between partisans” that could “be handled as such,” but rather a “21st century US version” of fascism:

His calls for a “deportation force” to expel 11+ million people from the country, his claims that most Mexican immigrants are rapists and criminals, his calls to keep databases of Muslims and to enact a total ban on Muslims entering the country, his rampant sexism, his mocking people with disabilities, and his propensity for lying have brought the already pathetic state of US political discourse to astoundingly precarious lows. Treating this like politics as usual allows it to become politics as usual, and those who do so risk complicity ushering in a new era of fascist politics in the United States....

(Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com ...


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: democrats; riots; trump; violence
Sorry Liberals, A Violent Response To Trump Is As Logical As Any (Here it is)
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1 posted on 06/08/2016 10:50:58 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So...why can’t I kill a communist any more ?


2 posted on 06/08/2016 10:52:31 AM PDT by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Whatever happened to “Violence is never the answer!”?


3 posted on 06/08/2016 10:52:38 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Ouderkirk

I SO LOVE the tolerance that the left espouses.


4 posted on 06/08/2016 10:57:28 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

5 posted on 06/08/2016 10:57:38 AM PDT by orchestra ((And there were also two other, malefactors, led with him to be put to death.))
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To: Puppage

This isn’t intolerance. It’s insanity. Divorced from reality insanity.

At some point one of these violent Leftist outbursts is going to target a Trump supporter who is engaging in concealed carry.

It might actually be exactly that sort of thing Leftist commentators like this are agitating for. But you’ll never see THEM out fomenting or engaging in the violence themselves ...


6 posted on 06/08/2016 11:02:36 AM PDT by tanknetter
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To: tanknetter
It might actually be exactly that sort of thing Leftist commentators like this are agitating for. But you’ll never see THEM out fomenting or engaging in the violence themselves ...

If one of my family suffered as a result of leftist-agitated violence, I would identify the leftist commentator who agitated for violence, and inflict payback.

These people in the so-called "free" press will eventually learn the hard lesson that they are not invulnerable.
7 posted on 06/08/2016 11:06:11 AM PDT by baltimorepoet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Ah...

Beck’s The Blaze picks up the trope.

Color me surprised.../s


8 posted on 06/08/2016 11:07:05 AM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

ETA:

But it’s only a one way street . There is no violent opposition allowed at radical marxist policies.


9 posted on 06/08/2016 11:14:45 AM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
This guy

Advocated violence against political opponents too.

10 posted on 06/08/2016 11:21:33 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What would the logical response be to anti-American,
anti-Constitution, anti-rule of law people be?


11 posted on 06/08/2016 11:24:59 AM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
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To: fella

That was how Mussolini gained political power too. Roving gangs of thugs beat the opposition to him out of the populace.


12 posted on 06/08/2016 11:28:28 AM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Violence begets violence. But what the left wing fascists don’t seem to realize is that not only are the conservative majority armed to the teeth, but the police are on their side, with a few exceptions in radical leftists cities.


13 posted on 06/08/2016 11:34:42 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The first Civil War was a terrible thing. I hope we can avoid a repeat, but there are worse things even than a Second Civil War. Perhaps America’s enemies on the totalitarian left should think this through before they start something that cannot be stopped.


14 posted on 06/08/2016 12:10:07 PM PDT by Pollster1 (Somebody who agrees with me 80% of the time is a friend and ally, not a 20% traitor. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The DNC and it’s Party supporters are to be known as the “Anarchist Party” with riots and mayhem as their preferred choice of campaigning in 2016 . Good luck with that Huff-Puff-Blow-Hard Arianna . How tolerant are you idiots any way ???


15 posted on 06/08/2016 1:31:35 PM PDT by Lionheartusa1 ()-: ISIS is Islam without the lipstick :-()
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To: TigersEye

I’m surprised I haven’t read of new committees of safety or KKK membership drives.


16 posted on 06/08/2016 3:17:29 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

But don’t even call Obama by his given name or you are shunned in society,typical hypocrisy from the tolerant and diversity preaching communists


17 posted on 06/08/2016 5:35:32 PM PDT by ballplayer (hvexx NKK c bmytit II iyijjhihhiyyiyiyi it iyiiy II i hi jiihi ty yhiiyihiijhijjyjiyjiiijyuiiijihyii)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Liberal: Violence that hurts my politics is bad. Violence that helps my politics is good. They’ll favor anything as long as it benefits them


18 posted on 06/14/2016 10:10:57 AM PDT by Personal Responsibility (We need a separation of press and state!)
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