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1/A thread on rising right wing extremist violence in America, and Trump's overt support of it. First, this summer Trump pardoned two men who had been convicted and jailed under domestic terrorism laws. https://www.upi.com/Trump-pardons-Oregon-ranchers-who-set-fires-on-federal-land/4141531234650/
2/Trump removed USG challenge to extremist "ghost gun" advocate, allowing him to proceed, and even paid his legal bills. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/13/business/downloadable-gun-allowed-alarming-activists.html He has since been arrested and his efforts blocked by another judge.
3/Right wing extremism has been most deadly form of domestic terrorism in US for a long time, and is rising. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/01/the-resurgent-threat-of-white-supremacist-violence/550634/
4/The Chairman of the Miami-Dade GOP helped organize a Proud Boys near violent incident against Nancy Pelosi last week. https://thinkprogress.org/rick-scott-florida-proud-boys-miami-republicans-marco-rubio-b4cdc1f9853a/
5/In California, 4 white nationalists were just arrested for attacking people in all the way in Charlottesville last year. "These guys came to Charlottesville to commit violent acts" said the prosecutor. http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-charlottesville-charges-20181002-story.html
6/Members of this same group, the Rise Above Movement, were arrested yesterday by the FBI on "charges of intent to incite violence at political rallies throughout California." https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fbi-arrest-members-white-nationalist-group-conspiracy-incite-violence-n924006
7/Last night Trump described the targets of the pipe bomb campaign as "former elected officials," which is not true and an obvious attempt to downplay the significance of the incident, giving a form of cover to the person who carried this out. It was beyond reckless, dangerous.
8/My point - right wing extremist violence is on the rise in America, and it is being directly aided & abetted by the Trump Admin and Republican Party organizations. There is no both sides on this one. GOP playing w/fire here, and when it burns cannot blame others for the damage.
9/Just isn't two sides on the issue of domestic terrorism, or political violence. A helpful chart. https://twitter.com/ianbremmer/status/1055488404522098689
10/Whole "violence" discussion reinforces fundamental asymmetry of GOP and Dems now. Rs have become a radical, ideologically driven party, Dems remain a pragmatic, practical one. Threat of RW violence is real, growing, dangerous. No center-left equivalent. https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1056166921899524097
11/So plausible now we are experiencing a dramatic escalation of right wing political violence in America. The Florida bomber, now Pittsburgh this morning and there was also this incident in Kentucky earlier in the week: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/son-of-witness-suspect-in-fatal-kroger-shooting-said-whites-dont-kill-whites_us_5bd1dd48e4b055bc94899042
12/We think the President is concerned about the safety of the American people today? Headline from @Politico: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/26/mail-bomber-trump-943260
13/And yes there is this https://twitter.com/lourdesgnavarro/status/1056219691860004864
14/I offer up some thoughts about the Trump, GOP and rising right wing political violence in this new front page @washingtonpost @DavidNakamura piece. Well worth a read. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-central-premise-of-his-presidency-critics-say-trump-has-fostered-the-toxic-environment-for-the-political-violence-he-denounces/2018/10/27/cd45e43e-da1e-11e8-a10f-b51546b10756_story.html?utm_term=.3908264fbdd6
