Let's flash back to last September when the right defended @instapundit Glenn Reynolds' "Run them down" tweet (see http://www.salon.com/2016/09/22/run-them-down-glenn-reynolds-baffled-at-brief-twitter-ban-over-inflammatory-charlotte-protesters-tweet/ … )https://twitter.com/brennanmgilmore/status/896434516260212737 …
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2/ From 2014-16, there were several protests involving people blocking roads. On the right, "run them down" became a rally cry.
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3/ For example, read the comments on this video from Ferguson protest blocking I-70. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHSC-zaYdaQ&feature=youtu.be&a …
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4/ There were multiple examples of people then actually driving into protest crowds: see https://www.riverfronttimes.com/newsblog/2016/07/08/hit-and-run-driver-targets-black-lives-matter-protest-in-ferguson-video … andhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2849774/Sickening-moment-hit-run-driver-smashes-crowd-Ferguson-protesters-drags-woman-20-feet-car-running-leg.html …
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5/ Still, last September Reynolds tweeted "Run them down" in response to another protest blocking a road. Sounds like a dogwhistle, eh?
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6/ Yet the right defended him, either saying it was free speech and critics were censoring him (see http://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2016/09/22/whoohoo-censorship-free-speech-advocate-and-well-known-conservative-instapundit-suspended-on-twitter/ … ) ...
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7/ Or the right claimed "the idea that he is seriously inciting any sort of actual or real threat is risible". http://reason.com/blog/2016/09/22/glenn-reynolds-the-internets-instapundit …
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8/ Yet here we are. A demonstration against the KKK, neo-Nazis, and other alt-right types. And another car running protestors down.
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9/ The "intellectual right" and "establishment right" dogwhistle to the alt-right base without caring that dog is foaming mouth rabid.
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10/ What will it take for the "mainstream right" to actually disavow the alt-right? Not just wring their hands while taking their votes?
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They won't, becuase they agree with them.
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