from the DAILY KOS:
Yesterday‘s elections show both a strong progressive drift across the Democratic Party, and an aggressive move toward fascism being driven by the base of the GOP and some of its billionaire donors.
But more urgently, the Republican Party has a terrorism problem, and the failure this week of the party’s leadership and members to call it out after the terrorist attack in Buffalo suggests they’re just fine with it.
The only high-profile Republican to have said a serious negative word against “white replacement terrorists” within the party was Liz Cheney, who tweeted:
“The House GOP leadership has enabled white nationalism, white supremacy, and anti-semitism. History has taught us that what begins with words ends in far worse. @GOP leaders must renounce and reject these views and those who hold them.”
Of all the politically motivated murders that happened in the US last year, 91% were committed by people affiliated with rightwing extremism; only 3% could be traced to Islamic extremism and 6% to “left wing” extremism including anarchists and Black nationalists.
Over the past decade, as the ADL notes, “Of the 443 people killed at the hands of extremists over that 10-year period, 333 (or 75%) were killed by right-wing extremists.”
A recent Morning Consult poll found that 23% of Republican men have a “favorable” or “very favorable” view of white nationalists: these are people who assert that America should be a nation where political power is held of, by, and exclusively for white people, and they have an outsized voice in the GOP.
K: an interesting take on the continuing “Right wing terrorism”
problem…
and one way we allow these terrorists to win is simply by being
silent… it wasn’t that that Germany had a right wing terrorist
problem with the Nazi’s, they did, but that the average German stayed
silent in the midst of the “final solution”…
Silence in the midst of terrorism is approval of said terrorism…
and the GOP/MAGA party wants you to approve, stay silent
while they continue their reign of terror…
if you remain silent, you tactically approve of right-wing terrorism…
Kropotkin