I can wish it were otherwise, wish that the temperature might be lowered and the fires of passion dampened, but at the same time I can know that it doesn’t seem very likely. My unconscious mind might be forgiven, therefore, for mistaking the midterms for a civil war. The GOP has called liberals like me murderers for supporting abortion rights, groomers for favoring LGBT rights, Nazis for believing in gun control and fascists for considering the 2020 election legal and fair. I suppose I don’t feel like someone conservatives simply disagree with.
So, do I feel targeted by conservatives, merely for political differences? Do I know some Republicans think their beliefs should be enforced at the end of a gun? Even though my nightmare is clearly impossible, do I think it represents a metaphor for the very real anger surging through the GOP? He left an anti-LGBT letter on a neighboring business.Īnd those are just the happenings of the last week or so. In Oklahoma, a man wearing what looked a lot like a MAGA hat threw a Molotov cocktail through the window of a donut shop after they hosted a drag show. “I’m just like, oh, I want to break his fingers,” the pastor said, from the pulpit. The pastor told his flock that he was shocked the kid “looked like a boy” otherwise. On the opposite side of the country, a video recently went viral of a Baptist pastor talking about how he’d seen a boy wearing fingernail polish. In a hearing about the group’s actions, one man told the judge that he and his wife were harassed, and their information publicly blasted out by GOP showman Steve Bannon, who called them ballot mules. Meanwhile, in Arizona, so-called election-monitoring groups only recently were prevented from showing up to ballot boxes openly armed, lying about election laws and recording voters dropping off ballots. mocked the incident on social media and other prominent conservatives suggested Pelosi or the Democrats were to blame.
AIRPLANES IN THE NIGHT SKY FULL
According to police, the man had built an extensive online presence full of right-wing conspiracy theories.Īfterward, instead of expressing horror at the attack and considering the role the GOP played in inspiring political violence, the conservative smear machine started a new conspiracy theory, that the attacker was Paul Pelosi’s lover. Nancy Pelosi, recently was attacked in his home, reportedly by a man who told police he was trying to find and hurt the speaker of the House.
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