#4793
29-Sep-2020 3:25:35
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"Trump Swift Boat Project." - Clinton OP
Joel Pollak
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The facts (see the transcript):
1. Trump said “sure” (twice) when asked to condemn white supremacists.
2. Wallace introduced the “stand” language.
3. Biden brought up the “Proud Boys.”
4. Biden then refused to condemn Antifa.
The crap Biden and Wallace pulled to deflect from Antifa and BLM - harping on the Proud Boys nonentities, "Antifa is just an idea" - were not just evasive tactics, but a real danger to the American people. Democrats are mainstreaming political violence.— John Hayward (@Doc_0) September 30, 2020
When your response to violent left-wing groups trashing cities and killing people is "hey, what about this little band of online loudmouths nobody ever heard of before?" you are mainstreaming political violence. You're explicitly equating it with jerks writing nasty tweets.
Biden, like other Democrats before him, is signaling to Antifa/BLM that he has their backs. Their violence will be indulged, excused, and overlooked while Dems and media obsess over vastly smaller groups that aren't burning down cities or assaulting people in restaurants.
If you don't treat political violence as absolutely beyond the pale - no exceptions, no indulgences, no whining about unrelated nonviolent groups you don't like, no salutes to the righteous grievances of rioters - you are normalizing that violence, and there will be more of it.
Also, violence has to be denounced immediately. Waiting a few months and then musing that maybe the boys went a little overboard when they leveled a city block isn't good enough. Belated criticism is an effort to control political fallout from the violence, not a denunciation.
Democrat obsession with the white supremacist phantom menace has gone far beyond whataboutism or deflection. It's an ongoing effort to justify and encourage left-wing political violence, with dangerous consequences.