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smagar
2 hours ago
I am seeing, in today's coverage on TV and online, this theme emerging that "both sides do it, so both sides need to tone down their language."
Did any crazy Republican shoot up the Democrat Congressional baseball team?
Did any crazy Republican tackle a Democrat Senator and break his ribs?
Did any Republican Senate leader threaten SCOTUS justices, as Chuck Schumer did?
Did any Republican Congressional leader urge his/her supporters to find Democrat legislators in public and harass them, as Maxine Waters did.
Did any Republican lead political operative volunteer to do "wetwork" (rhetorically, of course) against Joe Biden, as James Carville offered to do against Donald Trump?
Did any Republican-run cities allow Antifa and anti-Israel protesters to run wild?
If Republican leaders, by their silence, acquiesce as the left builds a public perception that both sides do it, then the public will conclude that both sides really do do it, so both sides are equally guilty.
Based on what I know so far, I reject that. IMO we should, too.