Connecting dots while delivering truth bombs. I made a list of most of what he said in that ten minutes:
- trump stoking a cold civil war of Americans against each other and now it has turned hot at the periphery
-rhetoric used to dehumanize the “caravan” is same type used for dehumanization purposes in 1938
-largest mass assassination attempt in American history perpetrated by a fanatic radicalized by Fox News, by talk radio, by a “rightwing propaganda machine which is as sophisticated as it has turned deadly”
- William f Buckley “used to kick the crazies out” of the Republican Party; unfortunately small “L” liberalism has become an epithet because conservatism was a branch rooted in liberalism, and the Republican Party and Democratic Party,” both liberal parties”, compete in the arena of ideas to move country forward
-now a cult of personality that is authoritarian in nature...and it is something more, the incitement: imagine, after the shootings, Donald trump goes and says “the free press is the enemy of the people” and that “the anger in the country is caused by the press reporting unfavorably on him. He is telling the people at the fringe, “if YOU take an action, it’s because they deserve it”
This whole caravan is a giant lie, this is trumps reichstag fire..that the U.s military would be deployed at a brigade sized level to stop this caravan which is a thousand miles away and made up of woman and children
-40% of the American public has opted in to an alternate reality and we have to wake up to the danger
-Kelly Ann Conway despicably claimed that “this shooters mode was an anti religious sentiment” — “no ma’am”..the propaganda organizations that she commands and the vile president that she serves including judicial watch have blood on their hands that have triggered and radicalized these crazy people. It is deliberate and intent. He (Trump) scapegoats minority populations, he alleges conspiracies, he creates a sense of shared and virtuous victimhood”
- Chris Hayes points of these sentiments were echoed in the. Past by Mitt Romney, Marco Rubio, Lindsay Graham..nut they’ve been assimilated.. Steve’s answer was that “every one of those people were willing to espouse American ideas and ideals when those ideas and ideals were not being tested. What we are seeing is a crisis of profound cowardice in what I would argue is the worst generation of political leadership the country may have ever seen”
-He compared it to Teddy Roosevelt Jr. fighting to get to be the first man coming out of the first landing craft on Dday and “we don’t see much of that anymore”
-what we see is capitulation and cowardice in the face of evil that we saw this past weekend. The willful blindness and ignorance
-the question this week isn’t which party is going to win the midterms, the question is whether there’s going to be more blood shed .. like what we’ve seen in banana republics and emerging democracies..we don’t settle our political differences with guns and knives here in this country..we don’t have presidents in this country until now who stole the American people to be at each other’s throats
-when trump says I’m a nationalist...white supremacists, neonazis, klamsmen celebrate..they are emboldened and excited, and they feel that they have been mainstreamed by this president and his winks and nods and dog whistles
- (the synagogue killer’s) reasons in his final tweets (before the killings) are the same toxic stew spewing from the dark corners of the Internet, from talk radio, from Fox News Sinclair Broadcasting; it’s exactly the same message, and anybody who says that there is not causality between these events and the incitements is as dishonest as they are blind
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