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Important read. This should be a roster of shame today. Instead, they're thriving politically and the GOPers who did *not* vote to block the transfer of power have lost their jobs in droves. It's a telling sign of the deep trouble we're in.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/03/us/politics/republican-election-objectors.html?smid=tw-share
"...accusing your opponents of wanting to do terrible things that they, in fact, do not want to do, but which you yourself intend to do." @SethCotlar
The term for this sort of rhetoric is “accusation in a mirror,” and scholars of genocide identify it as a major warning sign when political leaders start talking like this. https://twitter.com/accountablegop/status/1576315800079712257
The term for this sort of rhetoric is “accusation in a mirror,” and scholars of genocide identify it as a major warning sign when political leaders start talking like this. https://twitter.com/accountablegop/status/1576315800079712257
Marjorie Taylor Greene: "I am not going to mince words with you all. Democrats want Republicans dead and they have already started the killings."
This rhetoric is dangerous and unacceptable.
