Brian Klaas writes about the need to amplify the unhinged, dangerous musings of the Malignant Loser, rather than ignore them. A brief excerpt:
...On Friday night, Donald Trump gave a chillingly dark speech which few Americans know about.
He pledged to get tough on crime by executing people for petty crimes like shoplifting.
He joked about Paul Pelosi, the elderly husband of former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who was nearly beaten to death by a MAGA conspiracist who bludgeoned Pelosi’s skull with a hammer. (The baying crowd found Trump’s joke hilarious, laughing with glee at the prospect of an innocent elderly man nearly being assassinated).
Then, showing his intellectual acumen and flashing his firm grip on reality, Trump told the California crowd that he had an ingenious plan for fighting forest fires which involved…watering the forests so that the ground would be damp. (This is an additional strategy beyond his plan to “rake the forests,” which he previously suggested; American forests cover 800 million acres of land)...
He concludes with his reasoning for covering the Malignant Loser's violent rhetoric:
Bombarded by a constant stream of deranged authoritarian extremism from a man who might soon return to the presidency, we’ve lost all sense of scale and perspective. But neither the American press nor the public can afford to be lulled. The man who, as president, incited a violent attack on the U.S. Capitol in order to overturn an election is again openly fomenting political violence while explicitly endorsing authoritarian strategies should he return to power. That is the story of the 2024 election. Everything else is just window dressing.
It's beyond the point now when ignoring the Malignant Loser will diminish him. Whether or not his violent, addled rhetoric is covered, there will be MAGAts out there who will act on it. That genie has been out of the bottle for some time. The important thing now is to not be "lulled," but to be demonstrating over and over again what an unfit, damaged, existential danger the Malignant Loser poses to all of us. That really is the only story of the 2024 election.
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