Posted on 06/26/2016 11:20:54 AM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
Violence and protests are features of Donald Trump’s 2016 Republican presidential primary campaign. His rally in San Jose, California, on Thursday did not deviate from this script.
As reported by the Associated Press, protesters clashed with Donald Trump supporters outside of the San Jose Convention Center. Eggs were thrown at several of Trump’s foot soldiers by protesters. There were also reports of physical altercations between the two camps.
Right-wing websites such as Fox News, Breitbart and others are sounding cries of alarm and panic over the San Jose protests. Such shrill voices will only become louder and more hysterical as Donald Trump’s campaign continues through to the Republican convention and then the presidential election in November
This is all very predictable. The increasing levels of violence and protests at Donald Trump’s rallies fit perfectly with Right-wing delusions about how “real America” is under “siege” by people of color, non-white immigrants, “liberals,” “Muslims,” gays and lesbians, as well as young people—the latter being a group who have supposedly been stolen away and brainwashed by the bogeyman of “political correctness.”
These worries and panics are not new. A sense of white victimhood and paranoia has been a feature of movement conservatism (and the broader American right-wing) since at least the 1950s.
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Sure, because whenever someone gets attacked, beaten up, whatever, it’s that person’s fault. It is never the fault of the attacker, who was driven to violence by the specter of someone trying to mind his/her own business. /s
Salon does not allow comments on its articles. No wonder—tripe such as this would be torn to shreds if they did.
Really? I heard that salon gives dead fish a funny smell.
GCPUFF, What is your deal, exactly, if I may ask?
You have gone Left, right? (pun intended)
The nearest “conservative” enthusiasm you’ve ever expressed is consistently wrapped up with some RINO, or some milquetoast with an “R” attached to his/her name.
Posting a three week old story from a Lefty source that calls FOX News “far right” is a really dull decision.
Just sayin’.
I think I’ve seen less obvious trolls for Hillary.
You have to read what the crazy Left is saying. It makes this country’s battle lines very clear. You have to know how the Left thinks.
Hell no. You have to fight back if these protesters use violence. Don’t sit down.
The Chauncey bit I believe, the DeVega I don’t. Shades of Jerry Rivers becoming Geraldo Riviera?
Chauncey? Isn’t he the gardener? He’s still here?
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Jun 4, 2016
Yet to see trump supporters going to any other candidates rallies and being violent in large groups like those illegal trash thugs.
@SLorez Bullies don't have to ... they poke from afar and wait for the frustration to increase and the bullied fight back.
I don’t have enthusiasm for “RINOS”. I was just saying that Gov. Pawlenty would be a good choice for VP for Trump. The man ran a blue state for Pete’s sake. He did a decent job in Minnesota. You have to read what crazy leftists are saying. If not, you don’t understand the craziness that they put out.
Your new, but FReepers invented the battle lines, and have for decades known precisely what the Left wants, thinks and says.
The point of FR is not to discuss the antics of the Left so much as to DEFEAT them, wherever they pop their head up.
Sometimes they pop up here.
Humm.
The old lets-blame-the-straw-man-trick, eh #99?
True.
“your” - you’re
So there you have it: violence is okay if you’re a minority with a good liberal cause.
It’s okay though - laws are for white people.
Now go pay your taxes. We need more welfare. :)
Chauncey..really? LIB and with a defective logic circuitry in your brain is no way to go through life.
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