I'm watching all these conservatives get upset about mean tweets about Amy Coney Barrett from people who aren't, btw, elected Democrats. Has anyone asked them if they've apologized for their party leader, the president, repeatedly praising + mocking *violence* against @AliVelshi?
Conservatives have mastered the art of performative outrage, of wallowing, of being victims, all while staying totally silent as their leader, the most powerful man in the country, bullies and abuses and smears and incites actual violence against his critics on a *daily* basis.
There should be a simple rule deployed by all media organizations: if you're an elected Republican who's never criticized Donald Trump's abusive, racist, sexist, violence-inciting rhetoric, you don't get to have a platform to pretend to be outraged by mean tweets from randoms.
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