I'm sensing some anger here? If that keeps up i'll have to assume you're a troll and mosey on down the road.
Is this what you're talking about? I'll break it down by sentence for your convenience.
1. I also want to mention something about the events this evening in Chicago.
2. This is a sad day.
3. Political discourse should occur in this country without a threat of violence without anger and rage and hatred directed at each other.
4. We need to learn to have disagreements without being disagreeable, to have disagreements while being respecting human beings on the other side.
5. “Earlier today over thirty people were arrested at one rally.
6. And then tonight as violence broke out the rally was canceled altogether.
7. Now, the responsibility for that lies with protesters who took violence into their own hands.
8. But in any campaign responsibility starts at the top.
9. Any candidate is responsible for the culture of the campaign.
10. And when you have a campaign that disrespects the voters, when you have a campaign that affirmatively encourages violence, when you have a campaign that’s facing allegations of physical violence against members of the press, you create an environment that only encourages this sort of nasty discord.”
That's it, right? Where's the part about our 1st Amendment rights? Did i miss it somewhere in there?
You just said:
The concept Cruz was expressing about the leftist thugs was not complex, so it did not need many words. The concept of Trump’s words and actions was more complex, needing more words in order to be explained. Therefore, your claim that Cruz was more interested in talking about Trump’s responsibilities because he used more words is wrong conceptually.
But, but... you left out the point I'm making that you're skipping over. Here, let me fix it for you.
"Therefore, your claim that Cruz was more interested in talking about Trump’s responsibilities rather than defend our 1st Amendment rights for free speech because he used more words..."
There. Apples and oranges, i know. But we're in the same conversation and it's important that we stay on topic. You're talking about "buts" and I'm talking about 25 words out of 3 minutes to condemn a group who is denying his fellow Americans who want to listen to Trump their Constitutional rights.
I am not understanding your point. Are you saying that because Cruz didn’t say the words First Amendment, he was wrong? Or what exactly?
He blamed them. If he blamed them for what they did, then he was blaming them for violating people’s rights. So you allow yourself to make assumptions about what Trump means, but you don’t extend the same thing to Cruz? And then Cruz is wrong? Not so.