Recommended Reading: Far Right Incites Violence Against FBI

The Week's Recommended Reading on Substack: Donald Trump and the former President's far right followers have been 'whipping up violence,' with rhetoric that resembles the rhetoric prior to January 6th

Aug 23, 2022

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Aaron Rupar writes that “whipping up violence, of course, is a classic Trump tactic. While many examples could be cited, two that come to mind right away are mass shootings in Pittsburgh and El Paso that were clearly inspired by Trump’s rhetoric about immigrants.”

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Jared Yates Sexton writes that “to pretend as if Trump is an aberration, that any of his corruption is isolated, that his emergence as the head of the GOP was a momentary problem instead of a symptom of a much larger and consistently present issue, is to spin a fairytale that is, simultaneously, delusional and dangerous.”

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Parker Molloy writes that “Trump began what he would do for the rest of this press conference: he would say that “both sides” were to blame, but then complain near exclusively about the counterprotesters while making excuses for people who went to the neo-Nazi rally.”