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Tbh I'm surprised this hasn't happened sooner to him or the Supreme Court. Not that I endorse violence, I'm just kind of surprised considering all the violence the right wing has perpetrated up to now. It's really a last resort for everyone else.
I'm not. Now he's a martyr and he was barely hurt.
Martyrs are dead by definition
As I said to someone else- that is the literal definition of a martyr, not the political concept of a martyr. The latter is what matters. There are plenty of examples of political martyrs who survived and did well because of it. The most prominent right now is the House Majority Leader, Steve Scalise, who survived the mass shooter at the congressional baseball game a few years ago and has been riding that sympathy wave ever since.
You shouldn't be. This is just going to rile his base up even more.
Right, like how they all rose up during the BLM riots. Trump supporters won't do anything. If they do a lot of people will defend themselves from them.
They don't need to rise up. They just need to show up at the polls.
I do think people are becoming overly worried about this sort of thing having a negative effect, or a large amount of sway. I haven't seen really anyone who doesn't have a schizo political affiliation actually commit these sorts of things. The guy who killed shinzo abe killed him for affiliation with a cult, the guy who tried to kill reagan shot him because he was undiagnosed and thought a celebrity wanted him to do it.
I don't think the right wing has enough support broadly, and the hardcore groyper trump types definitely don't have enough support, in order to actually have some sort of large scale mass riot or protest like with BLM. Charlottesville is about the best they're gonna be able to do. But despite their relatively lower numbers, and we're talking like, a fraction of a fraction of a fraction here, we've seen that they are overwhelmingly ready to commit political violence over other political groups, as one might predict and as we saw during BLM. I agree with lots of people that are saying we might get retaliatory attacks from this, but I'm also agreeing that those might've happened anyways just as well, or might've happened for any other reason, it's really hard to tell.
Your average trump supporter, though, I'd be incredibly surprised if they did anything, and I don't think this is going to result in civil war despite how much people seem to want to manifest that as a reality. I'm more concerned with how this has probably just ensured that he's gonna get back in the white house.
As much as you feel he might deserve it, this will have worse results for defeating him.
Glad your happy... You going to be happy when his base rallies now, too?
I love how left leaning all of lemmy is... But the comments encouraging the violence or disappointment in the fact the shooter "missed", seems off.
Unfortunately for the civilized world, fascism often only dies at the end of a gun.
All emotions, big on rhetoric, not so good on repurcussions & consequences for actions.
However. I don't see much really coming from this, just a galvanized Trump base. Maybe some switcjes in the middle. And I wouldn't be shocked if there's a false flag, "Oooo, LOOK, now we've found a conservative that wants to kill Biden! Both sides!"
....except nobody's dumb enough to assassinate a senile lame duck. And everybody knows, nobody wants Kamala as POTUS. 🙄
ftfy.
Tell me any time in history where fascism has just said "You know what? You're right. The votes say it all, we're just gonna knock it off now..."
Violence has always been the thing that gets response. Without it, your begging and pleading is toothless. You'll continue to get stomped on, you'll continue to have your rights stripped away. You'll continue to roll backwards in history until someone else says "You know what, this has gone too far..." and...uses violence to put an end to it.
You know why the pen is mightier than the sword? Because the pen can rally millions of swords in its place.