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Trump's hate and lies are inciting extremists. Just ask the analyst who warned us.
The Plum Line Opinion
Trump’s hate and lies are inciting extremists. Just ask the analyst who warned us.
By Greg Sargent
Opinion writer
October 29 at 10:02 AM
President Trump and Republicans are lashing out at the notion that they bear primary responsibility for the climate of rage and hate that has consumed our politics, now that a man has allegedly gunned down 11 people in a Pittsburgh synagogue, after expressing hate-filled diatribes against Jews for helping settle refugees in the United States, people he referred to as “invaders.” ... On Twitter, Trump raged that the “division and hatred” that have been unleashed are the fault of the “Fake News,” which is “doing everything in their power to blame Republicans, Conservatives and me,” and repeated that news organizations are the “true Enemy of the People.”
Meanwhile, multiple prominent Republicans are rejecting the idea that Trump’s daily hate and vitriol represent a uniquely toxic threat to the country. They insist Trump isn’t to blame for the Pittsburgh carnage, or for the spate of bombing attempts aimed at Democrats and the media launched by a Florida man with a van festooned in adoring Trump stickers.
But Trump has adopted a closing midterm argument that has employed all kinds of disgusting lies to hype the Central American migrants as a national emergency, which he has suggested is the work of “corrupt, power-hungry globalists.” He has claimed George Soros is bankrolling Democratic mobs, and numerous Republicans have suggested Soros is behind the migrant exodus.
I spoke to Daryl Johnson, the former Department of Homeland Security analyst who created a big stir when he authored a leaked report in 2009 warning of a rise in right-wing extremist activity. Conservatives reacted with outrage, and the Obama administration decided it needed to do damage control. But Johnson was onto something, and he has since launched a consulting company that studies domestic extremism and advises law enforcement about it. ... An edited and condensed version of our conversation follows.
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Greg Sargent writes The Plum Line blog, a reported opinion blog with a liberal slant — what you might call “opinionated reporting” from the left. Follow https://twitter.com/theplumlinegs
Trump’s hate and lies are inciting extremists. Just ask the analyst who warned us.
By Greg Sargent
Opinion writer
October 29 at 10:02 AM
President Trump and Republicans are lashing out at the notion that they bear primary responsibility for the climate of rage and hate that has consumed our politics, now that a man has allegedly gunned down 11 people in a Pittsburgh synagogue, after expressing hate-filled diatribes against Jews for helping settle refugees in the United States, people he referred to as “invaders.” ... On Twitter, Trump raged that the “division and hatred” that have been unleashed are the fault of the “Fake News,” which is “doing everything in their power to blame Republicans, Conservatives and me,” and repeated that news organizations are the “true Enemy of the People.”
Link to tweet
Link to tweet
Meanwhile, multiple prominent Republicans are rejecting the idea that Trump’s daily hate and vitriol represent a uniquely toxic threat to the country. They insist Trump isn’t to blame for the Pittsburgh carnage, or for the spate of bombing attempts aimed at Democrats and the media launched by a Florida man with a van festooned in adoring Trump stickers.
Link to tweet
But Trump has adopted a closing midterm argument that has employed all kinds of disgusting lies to hype the Central American migrants as a national emergency, which he has suggested is the work of “corrupt, power-hungry globalists.” He has claimed George Soros is bankrolling Democratic mobs, and numerous Republicans have suggested Soros is behind the migrant exodus.
Link to tweet
Link to tweet
I spoke to Daryl Johnson, the former Department of Homeland Security analyst who created a big stir when he authored a leaked report in 2009 warning of a rise in right-wing extremist activity. Conservatives reacted with outrage, and the Obama administration decided it needed to do damage control. But Johnson was onto something, and he has since launched a consulting company that studies domestic extremism and advises law enforcement about it. ... An edited and condensed version of our conversation follows.
{snip}
Greg Sargent writes The Plum Line blog, a reported opinion blog with a liberal slant — what you might call “opinionated reporting” from the left. Follow https://twitter.com/theplumlinegs
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