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. @AOC is exactly right. The Republicans demanding that those who were in the Capitol under assault by a frenzied lynch mob, who were hunting @SpeakerPelosi @Mike_Pence and yes @AOC and other members of the squad, who have been turned into hate objects by Trump, Republicans and
conservative media for YEARS, are acting just like abusers. https://www.businessinsider.com/aoc-reveals-she-is-a-survivor-of-sexual-assault-while-relaying-insurrection-story-2021-2?nr_email_referer=1&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Business_Insider_select&pt=385758&ct=Sailthru_BI_Newsletters&mt=8&utm_campaign=Insider%20Select%202021-02-02&utm_term=INSIDER%20SELECT%20-%20ENGAGED%2C%20ACTIVE%2C%20PASSIVE%2C%20DISENGAGED%2C%20NEW
These people have spent years pumping tens of millions of mainly white Americans full of hate and rage by fixating them on Black, Brown and Muslim people, especially women, who dare to not bow to right wing, white supremacist orthodoxy.
The resulting demographic panic led directly to the Capitol assault. It wasnât hard for Trump to call his militants to action on January 6th. Heâd been priming them to go to war if he wasnât declared the winner of the election, vote count or even Electoral College be damned.
And the voters who flocked to Trump had already been primed to believe Black voters are by definition criminals, whose votes cannot and do not legally count & white conservatives (and right wing nonwhite candidates) MUST win elections because they are the only ârealâ citizens.
Trump lit the match. But he didnât do it by himself. The Republican Party writ large and its right wing media allies, and the billionaires who fund the whole cynical enterprise, not to mention the social media that carries it along, all have burnt matches in their hands.
