Donald Trump Is a Threat to Democracy, and Saying So Is Not Incitement

"Donald Trump is a threat to democracy. That was true before an assassination attempt was foiled at his golf course Sunday, and it remains true after. Political violence in general, and assassinating presidential candidates specifically, also poses risks to democracy.

There is no contradiction between these ideas whatsoever. Yet Trump’s supporters have responded to both attempts on his life by muddying the waters, exploiting the near-tragedies with cynical efforts to redefine critiques of Trump’s authoritarian inclinations as violent provocation.
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There is a more serious conceptual problem with the argument that denouncing Trump as a threat to democracy inspired violence: It ignores the truth or falsity of the matter. Taken at face value, the argument implies that we cannot say a presidential candidate threatens democracy even if he plainly does. A party could nominate a candidate who openly promises to end elections and imprison all his critics, and the opposing party would be prevented from describing this candidate as a threat to democracy for fear of inspiring assassination attempts...”


Republicans need to stop lying that appropriate, factual, warranted criticism of Trump is somehow ‘inciting’ violence against Trump.

Coming from the party that put a nominee in place that received ZERO votes in the primaries and completely circumvented our electoral process for choosing a nominee, I must laugh out loud at your faux outrage. Kinda sounds like election rigging, doesn't it? Kinda sounds like a threat to our democracy, doesn't it? Just deciding 14 million people who voted for Biden, their votes don't count. Yea, that's not a threat to an election or anything.

Clean up your own fucking party before you worry about ours.
 
"Donald Trump is a threat to democracy. That was true before an assassination attempt was foiled at his golf course Sunday, and it remains true after. Political violence in general, and assassinating presidential candidates specifically, also poses risks to democracy.

There is no contradiction between these ideas whatsoever. Yet Trump’s supporters have responded to both attempts on his life by muddying the waters, exploiting the near-tragedies with cynical efforts to redefine critiques of Trump’s authoritarian inclinations as violent provocation.
[…]
There is a more serious conceptual problem with the argument that denouncing Trump as a threat to democracy inspired violence: It ignores the truth or falsity of the matter. Taken at face value, the argument implies that we cannot say a presidential candidate threatens democracy even if he plainly does. A party could nominate a candidate who openly promises to end elections and imprison all his critics, and the opposing party would be prevented from describing this candidate as a threat to democracy for fear of inspiring assassination attempts...”


Republicans need to stop lying that appropriate, factual, warranted criticism of Trump is somehow ‘inciting’ violence against Trump.
You are inciting people to take shots at Trump and you don't give a damn.
 
Leftists say that Trump will take democracy away and Trump gets shot at twice.
So what?

It rained yesterday and I won a scratchoff ticket.

Educated people require a bit more than this innuendo.

Put on your big boy pants and draw the straight line from that to the 20 year old gun humper that shot at Trump.

(He was only shot at once, so you might want to stop lying)
 
A democracy is only as strong as the education of it's people.

That's why the Democrat party like to keep their base thick.
I'm not sure what nonsense they are pouring into your brain, across the pond...

But you might want to get up to speed.

 
I'm not sure what nonsense they are pouring into your brain, across the pond...

But you might want to get up to speed.

Right on cue, you can't make this stuff up, Lefty numpty comes flying in, lol

The resources I read are beyond your comprehension level. To improve yourself, read such studies by the likes of Strand or Straume etc.. Stop reading porn mags.
 
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What is incitement according to the angry left? Using the term bullseye or holding up a facsimile of Trump's bloody head?
 

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