Political Violence in America
"From Goldwater to Cole Allen - 60 Years of Stochastic Terrorism"
They Say the Words. Someone Else Pulls the Trigger. And Then They Blame the Gun.
"The shooter didn't radicalize himself. He was radicalized by people with TV Shows, Blue Checkmarks, and Pulitzer Prizes." (M. A. - Rothman)
1964 - Barry Goldwater - (LBJ's "Daisy" Ad: Implied Goldwaer would start atomic war. It aired once. It didn't need to air again.
1981 - Ronald Reagan - (Los Angeles Tmes - Reagan drawn plotting Putsch in Munich Beer Hall - Called a "fascist" and "dangerous warmonger by democrats.
2001-2009 - George W. Bush - ("Bushitler" became casual vocabulary across the left. "Death of a President" 2006 - depicted his assassination.
2017-2014 - Donald Trump - The New York Times - "The Threat to American Democracy;" MSNBC - "Trump: a Danger to the World"; Trump called Hitler over and over. The rhetoric didn't just escalate - it went operational.
April 25, Cole Thomas Allen - Checked into the Washington Hilton with a shotgun, a handgun, and multiple knives. Ten minutes before opening fire at the White House Correspondents' Dinner he sent his family a manifesto signed "Cole 'Cold Force' Friendhily Federal Assassin" Allen
The Words: They Incite, They Threaten, They Target.
Maxine Waters - June 23, 2018: "If you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them."
Chuck Schumer - March 4, 2020: "I want to tell you, Gorsuch; I want to tell you, Kavanaugh; you have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price. You won't know what hit you."
Joe Biden - July 8, 2024: "It' time to put Trump in a bull's eye."
Five days later . . . July 13, 2024 - Butler, PA - A bullet grazed Trump's ear.
Chief Justice John Roberts: "Threatening statements of this sort from the highest levels of government are not only inappropriate, they are dangerous."
The Culture: They Normalized It.
Jan. 21, 2017 - Madonna
Mar. 12, 2017 - Snoop Dogg
May 23, 2017 - Shakespears in the Park
May 30, 2017 - Kathy Griffin posed with severed Trump head.
June 22, 2017 - Johnny Depp "Which was the last time an actor assassinated a president?"
Within Five Months of Trump Taking Office, a Bernie Volunteer Was Already Shooting Repblicans.
The Machine: Manufactured Hate.
SPLC Southern Poverty Law Center - Indicted for paying at least $3 million to 8 informants inside hate groups - not to dismantle them, but to manufacture the extremes it claimed to oppose.
Acting AG Todd Blanche: "The SPLC was not dismantling these groups. It was instead manufacturing the extremism it purports to oppose by paying sources to stoke racial hatred."
They Say the Words.
Someone Else Pulls the Trigger.
And then They Blame the Gun.
The Shooter didn't radicalize himsef. He was radicalized by people with TV Shows, Blue Checkmarks, and Pulitzer Prizes. - M. A. Rothman
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On April 25, 2026, Cole Tomas Allen — a 31-year-old California teacher — checked into the Washington Hilton with a shotgun, a handgun, and multiple knives. Ten minutes before opening fire at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, he sent his family a manifesto signed “๐๐จ๐ฅ๐ ’๐๐จ๐ฅ๐๐
๐จ๐ซ๐๐’ ’๐
๐ซ๐ข๐๐ง๐๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐
๐๐๐๐ซ๐๐ฅ ๐๐ฌ๐ฌ∗๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐ง’ ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐๐ง.”
In it, he called the President a “p∗dophile, r∗pist, and traitor.” He said he wanted to target ๐๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐จ๐๐๐ข๐๐ข๐๐ฅ๐ฌ “๐ฉ๐ซ๐ข๐จ๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐ณ๐๐ ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ก๐ข๐ ๐ก๐๐ฌ๐ญ-๐ซ๐๐ง๐ค๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฐ๐๐ฌ๐ญ.” He mocked the “insane” lack of security and said an Iranian agent could have brought a machine gun “and no one would have noticed.”
The media will call him a “lone wolf.” He wasn’t. ๐๐ ๐ฐ๐๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฅ๐๐ญ๐๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐๐ฎ๐๐ญ ๐จ๐ ๐ ๐๐-๐ฒ๐๐๐ซ ๐๐ฌ๐ฌ๐๐ฆ๐๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐.
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Every Republican president since Goldwater has been cast as an existential threat to civilization by the Democratic Party and its media apparatus. Not “wrong on policy” — ๐๐ง ๐๐ฑ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐๐ฅ ๐ญ๐ก๐ซ๐๐๐ญ. The language never changes. Only the target does.
On ๐๐๐ฉ๐ญ๐๐ฆ๐๐๐ซ ๐, ๐๐๐๐, LBJ aired the “Daisy” ad — a little girl counting petals dissolving into a nuclear countdown — implying Barry Goldwater would start atomic war. It aired once. It didn’t need to air again.
Ronald Reagan was called a “๐๐๐ฌ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ” ๐ฐ๐ก๐จ๐ฌ๐ ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฅ๐ข๐๐ข๐๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐๐ซ๐ “๐ฅ๐ข๐๐ญ๐๐ ๐ฏ๐๐ซ๐๐๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐๐๐ข๐ง ๐๐๐ฆ๐ฉ๐” by Democratic Rep. William Clay. Senator Alan Cranston said Reagan had a “simplistic and paranoid worldview leading us toward a nuclear collision that could end us all.” The LA Times drew him plotting a putsch in a Munich beer hall.
George W. Bush? “๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ก๐ข๐ญ๐ฅ๐๐ซ” ๐๐๐๐๐ฆ๐ ๐๐๐ฌ๐ฎ๐๐ฅ ๐ฏ๐จ๐๐๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐๐ซ๐ฒ across the left. A British film called ๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ต๐ฉ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ข ๐๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ช๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต (2006) depicted his fictional ass∗ssination — and won the International Critics’ Prize at the Toronto Film Festival.
Then came Trump. And the rhetoric didn’t just escalate — ๐ข๐ญ ๐ฐ๐๐ง๐ญ ๐จ๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐๐ฅ.
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๐๐ฎ๐ง๐ ๐๐, ๐๐๐๐ — Maxine Waters:
“๐๐ง ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฏ๐บ๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ฅ๐บ ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐๐ข๐ฃ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ข ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ต๐ข๐ถ๐ณ๐ข๐ฏ๐ต, ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ข ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฑ๐ข๐ณ๐ต๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ด๐ต๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ, ๐ข๐ต ๐ข ๐จ๐ข๐ด๐ฐ๐ญ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ต๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ, ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐จ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ค๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ ๐ข ๐ค๐ณ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ด๐ฉ ๐ฃ๐ข๐ค๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฎ!”
๐๐๐ซ๐๐ก ๐, ๐๐๐๐ — Chuck Schumer, on the steps of the Supreme Court:
“๐ ๐ธ๐ข๐ฏ๐ต ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ, ๐๐ฐ๐ณ๐ด๐ถ๐ค๐ฉ. ๐ ๐ธ๐ข๐ฏ๐ต ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ, ๐๐ข๐ท๐ข๐ฏ๐ข๐ถ๐จ๐ฉ. ๐ ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ข๐ด๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ช๐ณ๐ญ๐ธ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ธ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฑ๐ข๐บ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ช๐ค๐ฆ. ๐ ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ฏ’๐ต ๐ฌ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฉ๐ช๐ต ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ.”
Chief Justice John Roberts issued a rare public rebuke: “๐๐ฉ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ด๐ต๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ด๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ด๐ต ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ญ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง ๐จ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฏ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ญ๐บ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ข๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ช๐ข๐ต๐ฆ, ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐บ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฏ๐จ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ด.”
๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐, ๐๐๐๐ — Joe Biden, on a donor call:
“๐๐ต’๐ด ๐ต๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ต ๐๐ณ๐ถ๐ฎ๐ฑ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ข ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ญ๐ญ’๐ด-๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ.”
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๐ข๐ฏ๐ ๐๐๐ฒ๐ฌ ๐ฅ๐๐ญ๐๐ซ, ๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐๐ญ ๐ ๐ซ๐๐ณ๐๐ ๐๐ซ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฉ’๐ฌ ๐๐๐ซ ๐ข๐ง ๐๐ฎ๐ญ๐ฅ๐๐ซ, ๐๐๐ง๐ง๐ฌ๐ฒ๐ฅ๐ฏ๐๐ง๐ข๐.
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๐๐๐ฉ๐ญ๐๐ฆ๐๐๐ซ ๐, ๐๐๐๐ — Squeaky Fromme, a Manson Family member and environmental radical, aims a .45 at Gerald Ford in Sacramento. No round in the chamber. Secret Service disarms her.
๐๐๐ฉ๐ญ๐๐ฆ๐๐๐ซ ๐๐, ๐๐๐๐ — Seventeen days later, Sara Jane Moore fires a .38 at Ford in San Francisco. She misses by six inches. Her stated motive: “๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ญ๐บ ๐ธ๐ข๐บ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ต๐ณ๐บ ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐จ๐ฐ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ค๐ฉ๐ข๐ฏ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ข ๐ท๐ช๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฐ๐ญ๐ถ๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ. ๐ ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ถ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ญ๐บ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ถ๐จ๐ฉ๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ด๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฅ ๐ฎ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ต ๐ต๐ณ๐ช๐จ๐จ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต.”
๐๐๐ซ๐๐ก ๐๐, ๐๐๐๐ — John Hinckley Jr. shoots Reagan outside the Washington Hilton — the ๐ฌ๐๐ฆ๐ ๐ก๐จ๐ญ๐๐ฅ where Cole Allen would open fire 45 years later.
๐๐ฎ๐ง๐ ๐๐, ๐๐๐๐ — James Hodgkinson, a Bernie Sanders campaign volunteer, opens fire on the Republican congressional baseball practice in Alexandria, Virginia. He fired ๐๐ ๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐๐ฌ ๐จ๐ฏ๐๐ซ ๐๐ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐ฎ๐ญ๐๐ฌ. Before shooting, he asked a leaving congressman: “๐๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ด๐ฆ ๐๐ฆ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ฃ๐ญ๐ช๐ค๐ข๐ฏ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ค๐ณ๐ข๐ต๐ด ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ข๐ค๐ต๐ช๐ค๐ช๐ฏ๐จ?” He was told Republicans. Then he opened fire. House Majority Whip Steve Scalise nearly died.
Hodgkinson’s Facebook, weeks before: “๐๐ณ๐ถ๐ฎ๐ฑ ๐ช๐ด ๐ข ๐๐ณ๐ข๐ช๐ต๐ฐ๐ณ. ๐๐ณ๐ถ๐ฎ๐ฑ ๐๐ข๐ด ๐๐ฆ๐ด๐ต๐ณ๐ฐ๐บ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐๐ถ๐ณ ๐๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ค๐ณ๐ข๐ค๐บ. ๐๐ต’๐ด ๐๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐๐ฆ๐ด๐ต๐ณ๐ฐ๐บ ๐๐ณ๐ถ๐ฎ๐ฑ & ๐๐ฐ.”
๐๐ฎ๐ง๐ ๐, ๐๐๐๐ — Nicholas Roske arrives at Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s home with a Glock, zip ties, pepper spray, a knife, a hammer, a crowbar, and duct tape. He planned to k!ll multiple Supreme Court justices over the leaked Roe v. Wade opinion — two years after Schumer’s “you will pay the price” threat.
๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐๐, ๐๐๐๐ — Thomas Matthew Crooks fires eight rounds at Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania. A bullet grazes Trump’s ear. Corey Comperatore, a 50-year-old father shielding his family, is k!lled. Crooks had searched “how far was Oswald from Kennedy” the week before.
๐๐๐ฉ๐ญ๐๐ฆ๐๐๐ซ ๐๐, ๐๐๐๐ — Ryan Wesley Routh hides in shrubs 400 yards from Trump at his golf course in West Palm Beach. He left a confession letter: “๐ ๐ต๐ณ๐ช๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ด๐ต ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐จ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ช๐ต ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐จ๐ถ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ. ๐๐ต ๐ช๐ด ๐ถ๐ฑ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ง๐ช๐ฏ๐ช๐ด๐ฉ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ซ๐ฐ๐ฃ; ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ ๐ธ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ง๐ง๐ฆ๐ณ $๐ท๐ป๐ถ,๐ถ๐ถ๐ถ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ค๐ข๐ฏ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ต๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ซ๐ฐ๐ฃ.” Routh donated to ActBlue 20 times and voted in the Democratic primary.
๐๐ฉ๐ซ๐ข๐ฅ ๐๐, ๐๐๐๐ — Cole Allen.
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While Democratic leaders supplied the ideology, Hollywood normalized the imagery:
— ๐๐๐ง๐ฎ๐๐ซ๐ฒ ๐๐, ๐๐๐๐: Madonna at the Women’s March: “๐ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ถ๐จ๐ฉ๐ต ๐ข๐ฏ ๐ข๐ธ๐ง๐ถ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ข๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ถ๐ฑ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ต๐ฆ ๐๐ฐ๐ถ๐ด๐ฆ.”
— ๐๐๐ซ๐๐ก ๐๐, ๐๐๐๐: Snoop Dogg’s music video shows him aiming a gun at a Trump parody and pulling the trigger.
— ๐๐๐ฒ ๐๐, ๐๐๐๐: Shakespeare in the Park stages Julius Caesar with a Trump lookalike graphically stabbed to death on stage in Central Park.
— ๐๐๐ฒ ๐๐, ๐๐๐๐: Kathy Griffin poses with a severed Trump head dripping in blood.
— ๐๐ฎ๐ง๐ ๐๐, ๐๐๐๐: Johnny Depp at Glastonbury: “๐๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ข๐ด๐ต ๐ต๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฏ ๐ข๐ค๐ต๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ข๐ด๐ด∗๐ด๐ด๐ช๐ฏ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ข ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ช๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต?”
All of this happened within ๐๐ข๐ฏ๐ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ก๐ฌ of Trump taking office. By June 2017, a Bernie volunteer had already shot up a baseball field full of Republican congressmen.
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And then, the same week Cole Allen opened fire at the WHCD, we learned the final piece: the ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ซ๐ง ๐๐จ๐ฏ๐๐ซ๐ญ๐ฒ ๐๐๐ฐ ๐๐๐ง๐ญ๐๐ซ ๐ฐ๐๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง๐๐ข๐๐ญ๐๐ for paying at least $๐ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ญ๐จ ๐ ๐ข๐ง๐๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ๐๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ inside hate groups — not to dismantle them, but to ๐ฆ๐๐ง๐ฎ๐๐๐๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐ฑ๐ญ๐ซ๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ญ ๐๐ฅ๐๐ข๐ฆ๐๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐จ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฌ๐.
Acting AG Todd Blanche: “๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ฅ๐ช๐ด๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ๐ต๐ญ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ด๐ฆ ๐จ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฑ๐ด. ๐๐ต ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ช๐ฏ๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ๐ถ๐ง๐ข๐ค๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐น๐ต๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ช๐ด๐ฎ ๐ช๐ต ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ณ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต๐ด ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐บ ๐ฑ๐ข๐บ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐ค๐ฆ๐ด ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ด๐ต๐ฐ๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ข๐ค๐ช๐ข๐ญ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ต๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฅ.”
This is the same SPLC that labeled ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ฌ ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐๐ข๐๐๐ซ๐ญ๐ฒ “๐๐ฑ๐ญ๐ซ๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ” and ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐
๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐๐๐ฌ๐๐๐ซ๐๐ก ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐๐ข๐ฅ “๐ ๐ก๐๐ญ๐ ๐ ๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ฉ.” The same SPLC cited by the ๐
๐๐’๐ฌ ๐๐ข๐๐ก๐ฆ๐จ๐ง๐ ๐๐ข๐๐ฅ๐ ๐จ๐๐๐ข๐๐ in its January 2023 memo labeling pro-life Catholics as potential domestic terrorists.
The organization that decided who was “extreme” in America ๐ฐ๐๐ฌ ๐๐ฎ๐ง๐๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐ฑ๐ญ๐ซ๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ. And they got caught the same week their rhetoric produced another shooter.
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Cole Allen didn’t radicalize in a vacuum. He called Trump a “p∗dophile, r∗pist, and traitor” — the exact language of MSNBC chyrons, Democratic fundraising emails, and blue-check Twitter threads. He attended a “No Kings” rally. He joined “The Wide Awakes.” He traveled by train from Los Angeles to Chicago to Washington, D.C. to do what 60 years of rhetoric told him was not just acceptable but ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ค๐ฆ๐ด๐ด๐ข๐ณ๐บ.
They called Goldwater a nuclear madman. They called Reagan a fascist. They called Bush a Nazi. They called Trump Hitler — over and over and over — and then three separate people tried to k!ll him.
๐๐ก๐๐ฒ ๐ฌ๐๐ฒ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐๐ฌ. ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐๐จ๐ง๐ ๐๐ฅ๐ฌ๐ ๐ฉ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ญ๐ซ๐ข๐ ๐ ๐๐ซ. ๐๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ฒ ๐๐ฅ๐๐ฆ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ ๐ฎ๐ง.
๐๐ก๐ ๐ฌ๐ก๐จ๐จ๐ญ๐๐ซ ๐๐ข๐๐ง’๐ญ ๐ซ๐๐๐ข๐๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ณ๐ ๐ก๐ข๐ฆ๐ฌ๐๐ฅ๐. ๐๐ ๐ฐ๐๐ฌ ๐ซ๐๐๐ข๐๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ณ๐๐ ๐๐ฒ ๐ฉ๐๐จ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐๐ ๐ฌ๐ก๐จ๐ฐ๐ฌ, ๐๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ ๐๐ก๐๐๐ค๐ฆ๐๐ซ๐ค๐ฌ, ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ณ๐๐ซ ๐๐ซ๐ข๐ณ๐๐ฌ.
