Post by the Scribe on Nov 23, 2021 9:13:38 GMT
Conservative Columnist Sounds Alarm On ‘Full-Blown Insurgency’ From The Right
news.yahoo.com/conservative-columnist-sounds-alarm-full-090233117.html?fr=sychp_catchall
Lee Moran
Tue, November 23, 2021, 2:02 AM·1 min read
Conservative columnist Max Boot on Monday warned of a “full-blown insurgency” from right-wing extremists should former President Donald Trump decide to run and then loses again in the 2024 election.
The Washington Post writer feared an armed faction of the right-wing movement would “bear roughly the same symbiotic relationship to the GOP that the IRA had to the Sinn Fein party.”
It “doesn’t take many extremists to cause mayhem in a country awash in firearms,” he noted.
With right-wing violence now a top domestic terrorism threat, Boot said “a responsible political party would damp down its incendiary rhetoric and urge its supporters to moderate their zeal.”
But Republicans just “continue to fan the flames of hatred, violence and division.”
“It’s not too late to avert a wider insurgency,” Boot concluded. “But it will require Republicans to dial down their violent and apocalyptic rhetoric — which they show no sign of doing.”
Read Boot’s full column here.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/22/republicans-are-fomenting-violent-extremism-are-also-hostage-extremists/
This article originally appeared on HuffPost and has been updated.
www.huffpost.com/entry/max-boot-gop-violent-insurgency_n_619ca65ce4b0ae9a42a5722d
news.yahoo.com/conservative-columnist-sounds-alarm-full-090233117.html?fr=sychp_catchall
Lee Moran
Tue, November 23, 2021, 2:02 AM·1 min read
Conservative columnist Max Boot on Monday warned of a “full-blown insurgency” from right-wing extremists should former President Donald Trump decide to run and then loses again in the 2024 election.
The Washington Post writer feared an armed faction of the right-wing movement would “bear roughly the same symbiotic relationship to the GOP that the IRA had to the Sinn Fein party.”
It “doesn’t take many extremists to cause mayhem in a country awash in firearms,” he noted.
With right-wing violence now a top domestic terrorism threat, Boot said “a responsible political party would damp down its incendiary rhetoric and urge its supporters to moderate their zeal.”
But Republicans just “continue to fan the flames of hatred, violence and division.”
“It’s not too late to avert a wider insurgency,” Boot concluded. “But it will require Republicans to dial down their violent and apocalyptic rhetoric — which they show no sign of doing.”
Read Boot’s full column here.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/22/republicans-are-fomenting-violent-extremism-are-also-hostage-extremists/
This article originally appeared on HuffPost and has been updated.
www.huffpost.com/entry/max-boot-gop-violent-insurgency_n_619ca65ce4b0ae9a42a5722d