Republicans, in wake of Trump shooting, seek to pin political violence trend on Democrats
Source: Reuters
July 14, 2024 6:41 PM EDT Updated an hour ago
WASHINGTON, July 14 (Reuters) - Within hours of the assassination attempt on former U.S. President Donald Trump, many of his supporters began laying blame on Democrats, seeking to flip the script on who has stoked America’s heated political rhetoric as cases of political violence reach historic heights.
From establishment Republicans to far-right conspiracy theorists, a consistent message emerged that President Joe Biden and other Democratic leaders laid the groundwork for Saturday’s shooting by casting Trump as an autocrat who poses a grave threat to democracy. A Reuters analysis of more than 200 incidents of politically motivated violence between 2021 and 2023, however, presented a different picture: In those years, fatal political violence more often emanated from the American right than from the left.
The U.S. is embroiled in the most sustained spate of political violence since a decade of upheaval that began in the late 1960s, Reuters found in that report published last year. That violence has come from across the ideological spectrum, and includes extensive attacks on property during left-wing political demonstrations. But attacks on people -- from beatings to killings -- were perpetrated mostly by suspects acting in service of right-wing political beliefs and ideology.
Almost immediately after Saturday’s attack, right-wing websites were brimming with assertions that left-wing rhetoric motivated Trump’s assailant. Many commentators blamed the shooting on the Biden White House or pushed unsubstantiated conspiracy theories, including a claim that a shadowy “deep state” cabal within the government orchestrated it.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/republicans-wake-trump-shooting-seek-pin-political-violence-trend-democrats-2024-07-14/
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MAGA folks are constantly talking about violence. There are plenty of Jan 6 folks in prison who turned out to not be false flag Dems at all. Just very violent MAGA extremists backing the blue into a corner and beating them to death.
Kyle Rittenhouse is a big MAGA hero.
Mark Robinson, GOP candidate for governor of NC, talks about literal killing all the time.
The Qanon shaman with the horns is running for office in Arizona.
GOP candidates run for office on pro-violence platforms.
is going to go along with this....
Constant violent rhetoric from MAGAts, but it's all Dems fault.....
