Would you? Would it matter if 100% of the media coverage of the event was those few? C'mon, we've seen this same playbook deployed over & over (along with "the Koch Brothers hired them!") to delegitimize the existence of any public movement on the right.
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Replying to @baseballcrank
It’s a small group of people. It’s not a mass movement. And these racists always seem to turn out. And nobody minds. Seems like a governor ought to renounce racists. What’s complicated about that?
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Replying to @yeselson
She is free to say they do not represent her. But we both know that's not what she's doing.
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Replying to @baseballcrank
??? Not represent *her*? Obviously they don’t represent her! They oppose her! Why would she bother to say that? What needs to be said is they are disgusting racists! How should she do that—what words should she say that would satisfy you?
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Replying to @yeselson @baseballcrank
I’m waiting. So racists and nuts with guns wanting to intimidate elected representatives come to the capital? How should a governor say, “I oppose racists and gun nuts.” Or should she say nothing? What do you think?
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Replying to @yeselson
Also, "intimidate"? We both know nobody is intimidated. The statehouse Ds are doing cartwheels.
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Replying to @baseballcrank
No—they weren’t. That is really a contemptible for you to say. Some of them have said they were genuinely scared. These thugs were armed and they were trying to intimidate the Dems. No, they aren’t happy. Don’t project your cynicism into to people who were rightly appalled.
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Replying to @yeselson @baseballcrank
There’s something off here. Your instinct—first move—is not to be viscerally disgusted by horrible people behaving horribly and representing a violent racist aspect of our politics. Your instinct is to condemn those who condemn them, even blandly. So: are you not disgusted too?
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Replying to @yeselson
My instinct is to mistrust Democratic politicians bearing well-worn narratives that have been misused more times than I can count.
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Replying to @baseballcrank
What does it matter whst her *motives* are? She denounced racists/milita extremists. Easy call for any elected or it should be. She did the *right* thing, regardless of why. So why won’t you do the right thing too? The racists are the problem, not her denunciation.
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I'm more interested in the government of Michigan than in an unrepresentative handful of its citizens. Public protests will always draw out some bad actors.
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Replying to @baseballcrank
Elected politicians have a right to condemn what deserves condemnation. And also—they’re not “bad actors.” That’s vague, non specific language, you’re too good a writer for that. They’re racists. They should be labeled as such.
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