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Various anti-hate campaigns in the media today fail to mention the biggest hate movement of all, the one sponsored by far-right Republicans against Democrats.
Republicans have incited hate crimes against Democrats with offices in Congress and private homes in California and have encouraged hate against judges and election workers.
Do they really get a free pass to hate just because many go to evangelical church while many Democrats go elsewhere?
In Utah, Senate candidate Brad Wilson appears in a TV ad where he promises to “risk it all” and fires a rifle as he talks about “fighting” President Joe Biden. In another, he takes a sledgehammer to cinder blocks representing Biden’s agenda, which he claims is “destroying” the country’s foundations. This is outrageous incitement to violence against Democrats.
Wilson’s MAGA party is doing plenty of the destroying, however, if you count honesty, nonviolence and separation of powers as part of that foundation.
MAGA candidates in this election cycle need to be held accountable for both religious and political hate speech before their partisans actualize their candidates’ violent fantasies.
