1. I'm not going to ID his name or link to his fucking manifesto but the apprehended shooter is exactly the type of alt-right shithead one would expect. And not surprisingly he claimed to have also attacked a Mosque.
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1. The shape of violent white nationalist anti-Semitism is clear: the ideology is replacement theory (i.e. Jews are using immigrants to displace whites). The problem is that this thinking is not confined to extreme but has counterpart among respectable right (i.e. Soros baiting)
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2. It's best to think of Nazis & alt-light as two wings of the same movement, the violent terrorist wing and the reputable public wing. The alt-light have real positions in Trump administration, congress & right-wing media. They echo in muted form the core ideas of Nazis.
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Many on the right would say the same about violent communist revolutionaries (antifa) and progressives in government and media. It's BEST to understand that guessing at everyone's secret motivations is problematic and that guilt-by-association is bullshit.
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The guy who shot Steve Scalise was pretty scary. The point remains. We can all point to worst of the left or right and blame the whole group for their sins, but doing so is inaccurate. It's best to keep your criticisms directed at individuals or specific organizations/policies.
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Did any Democrat say the guy who shot Scalise belonged to a group of very fine people?
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Democrats generally dislike Bernie and his followers, so it wouldn't really come up.
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