To their credit, the Democratic establishment has held the line. But if there’s little reciprocity — and there’s countervailing pressure from within the Democratic party not to yield too much ground, certainly not unilaterally — then it’s hard to see how we stamp out political violence once and for all.
This is the part that makes it clear that the inability to disagree without violence is a right wing trait. The rest of the response makes it sound like this is a both sides issue, but it’s clear that the right is entirely the fuck at fault.
Yeah, this author is a dangerous idiot who absolutely should not be listened to about anything. He thinks a healthcare CEO getting shot is a problem but doesn’t say anything about all the people who die from a lack of healthcare, calls out “countervailing pressure from within the Democratic party” but can’t bring himself to say “Republicans are not reciprocating” because that would be too partisan or something, etc.
It’s this kind of cowardly condescending bullshit that has brought us to this point. These fucking shitstains who think they’re leaders of our society (lawmakers, professors, business leaders, etc.) are fucking cowards who can’t ever say something about the powerful people who are actually ruining everything without spending ten times as long complaining about average Americans. The problem isn’t political polarization, it’s that working people are being crushed and it’s making us lose our minds.
