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Don’t you love it when the conservatives blame the Dems for what the conservatives are doing themselves? It’s like narcissism’s victim-blaming 101: shifting accountability, gaslighting, and projection.
Projection is all they do.
Pretty sure that's literally one of Eco's 14 characteristics of fascism. Publicly accusing the opposition of doing the exact (awful) thing they're doing.
I~~f I'm not mistaken, it was a US Libertarian who attempted the assassination. It's analytically pointless to group them in with the Republicans, even if they're both horrible. Infighting is serious business.~~ [redacted: see my reply]
But yes, they're still going to blame the Dems anyway lol.
Source he was a libertarian?
US libertarians are republicans’ worst governing qualities on steroids, but they’re essentially republicans here despite the naming difference.
I'm going to redact my claim until I find evidence, because I may have just misinterpreted a flag they had up. Outlets are reporting the were a registered Republican.
I recall seeing somewhere that his pops was a libertarian.
And then the Dems agree that Something Must Be Done, so you get the next iteration of the Mulford Act and a SWAT Team kicking down the door of the Socialist Rifle Association.