Symptoms and causes:
... [A]nti-Semitic activity, including hate crimes in schools and bomb threats against Jewish institutions, has been soaring — up an unprecedented 57 percent last year, according to the Anti-Defamation League. That is the symptom. The cause is a climate in which the sentiments of white nationalists and other hate groups are no longer suppressed.
Hate groups feel emboldened to show their faces in public, as they did when they marched last year in Charlottesville, chanting: “Jews will not replace us.” That, too, had a deadly result. But the president of the United States insisted there had been moral equivalency between the neo-Nazis and those who had shown up to protest them: “There are two sides to a story. I thought what took place was a horrible moment for the country, but there are two sides to a story.”
Given that, what cure is offered by the Very Stable Genius?
Trump says Tree of Life synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh has “little to do with” gun laws, says the synagogue should have “had some kind of a protection” inside the temple, and later blames synagogue for not having armed guards. pic.twitter.com/AWg5AwkEKp— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) October 27, 2018
There's little question our political climate has devolved by perhaps 150 years -- particularly accelerating since this vile toad and his cretinous fans have infected the body politic. However, that process has been underway for the past 50 years through the Republican Party as it catered more and more to the vicious smallness and grievances of a core white nationalist base, until it has become their vehicle of expression.
The process of taking our country back begins on November 6, but cannot end there. Violent right- wingers (call them white nationalists, alt- right or neo- Nazis too) have been playing a long game, waiting under their rocks to emerge, as Tumulty says above, once emboldened by the vile toad. The protection we need from these creatures does not involve having guns in synagogues, churches, mosques, schools or movie theaters. It involves having a political system that continually neuters and buries such creatures and their malignancy. Going forward, it must be our life's work.
BONUS: In a Tweet (deleted after the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre), House Republican Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (Reptile-CA) wanted us to know there are three wealthy Jewish Americans trying to buy the election for Democrats --
BONUS: In a Tweet (deleted after the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre), House Republican Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (Reptile-CA) wanted us to know there are three wealthy Jewish Americans trying to buy the election for Democrats --
Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy posted this tweet AFTER a bomb was sent to Soros' house. Up until a couple of minutes ago it was pinned to the top of his profile. pic.twitter.com/FEeKoPolHL— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) October 24, 2018
As we often say, the sickening rot runs all the way through the Republican Party. Vote. Them. Out.
