JAMES HODGKINSON: LEFTIST HATE’S POSTER MAN
A quite standard “hard core” Democrat and “passionate progressive”.
James Hodgkinson was a leftist Democrat.
There was nothing unusual about him. He was not “mentally ill.”
Hodgkinson had imbibed hook, line, and sinker all of the DNC, left-wing talking points that “the Resistance” has been cranking out from long before its members began describing themselves in these terms.
Hodgkinson is the logical culmination of the campaign
of demonization and dehumanization of Republicans and Trump-supporters that the left has been waging for decades,
a campaign that leftists have been ratcheting up as of late, even since Trump and the Deplorables defied the world and defeated Hillary Clinton.
Hodgkinson was an admirer of MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, Bill Maher, and, generally, exactly those leftist talking heads and celebrities
who have been routinely, incessantly, expressing precisely the same thoughts about Republicans and Trump
that filled Hodgkinson with a murderous hatred toward his political opponents.
Politically or ideologically speaking, Hodgkinson is no different than the leftists in Washington D.C., the media, Hollywood, and academia.
His ideology is one and the same as that of the Obamas, Schumers, Pelosis, Clintons, Sanders, Maddows, Mahers, Robert DeNiros, Meryl Streeps, Kathy Griffins, Madonnas, Snoop Doggs, and so on ad infinitum
Partisan differences aside,
it is high time for all decent Americans, irrespectively of political affiliation,
to have a sober dialogue
as to why it is that the lion’s share of the violence, vitriol, and contempt in this country stems from the ideological left.
Hodgkinson is the second Sanders supporter in just a few weeks to go on a killing spree.
=====A quite standard “hard core” Democrat and “passionate progressive”.
James Hodgkinson was a leftist Democrat.
There was nothing unusual about him. He was not “mentally ill.”
Hodgkinson had imbibed hook, line, and sinker all of the DNC, left-wing talking points that “the Resistance” has been cranking out from long before its members began describing themselves in these terms.
Hodgkinson is the logical culmination of the campaign
of demonization and dehumanization of Republicans and Trump-supporters that the left has been waging for decades,
a campaign that leftists have been ratcheting up as of late, even since Trump and the Deplorables defied the world and defeated Hillary Clinton.
Hodgkinson was an admirer of MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, Bill Maher, and, generally, exactly those leftist talking heads and celebrities
who have been routinely, incessantly, expressing precisely the same thoughts about Republicans and Trump
that filled Hodgkinson with a murderous hatred toward his political opponents.
Politically or ideologically speaking, Hodgkinson is no different than the leftists in Washington D.C., the media, Hollywood, and academia.
His ideology is one and the same as that of the Obamas, Schumers, Pelosis, Clintons, Sanders, Maddows, Mahers, Robert DeNiros, Meryl Streeps, Kathy Griffins, Madonnas, Snoop Doggs, and so on ad infinitum
Partisan differences aside,
it is high time for all decent Americans, irrespectively of political affiliation,
to have a sober dialogue
as to why it is that the lion’s share of the violence, vitriol, and contempt in this country stems from the ideological left.
Hodgkinson is the second Sanders supporter in just a few weeks to go on a killing spree.
JAMES HODGKINSON: LEFTIST HATE’S POSTER MAN
A quite standard “hard core” Democrat and “passionate progressive”.
June 16, 2017
Jack Kerwick
In the early morning of Wednesday, June 14, while House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, Republican Congressman from Louisiana, was practicing with his GOP colleagues for the Congress’s annual baseball game, James Hodgkinson opened fire -- hitting Scalise, a staffer, and two Capitol Hill police officers.
Thankfully, the brave police officers saved lives that would otherwise have been taken while sending the would-be assassin off to meet his maker.
Scalise and his cohorts were prey to the worst act of domestic political violence that this country has witnessed in a very long time.
In fact, Hodgkinson worked on Sanders’ campaign.
A glimpse at Hodgkinson’s Facebook account reveals the depths of his hatred for all things Republican—particularly and especially President Donald J. Trump. Yet he clearly detested the GOP long before the rise of Trump.
Trump, Hodgkinson posted, is an “a**h***,” “Truly the Biggest A**h*** We Have Ever Had in the Oval Office.” He is “a Mean, Disgusting Person” who is “Guilty & Should Go to Prison for Treason.”
Georgia Republican Karen Handel, who is in a tight race in a special election, Hodgkinson referred to as a “Republican B**ch” who “Wants People to Work for Slave Wages [.]”
Republicans have turned America into a “Fascist State.” The only way to save it is to “Vote Blue,” for “It’s Right for You!”
After all, this self-avowed proponent of “Democratic Socialism” assures us that the Republicans, who Hodgkinson characterizes as “the American Taliban,” “Hate Women, Minorities, Working Class People, & Most All (99%) of the People of the Country.”
In other words, Hodgkinson shares Hillary Clinton’s assessment that Republicans (at least of the Trump-supporting variety, i.e. most of them) are “irredeemables” and “deplorables.”
“Republican Law Makers,” he tells us elsewhere, “Don’t Give a Damn About the Working Class in this Country.”
Hodgkinson believed in anthropogenic “climate change” or “global warming” and exorbitant taxes “for the rich.” He urged Senate Democrats to “filibuster” the confirmation of Neil Gorsuch and mocked what he called “trickle-down” economics.
He also belonged to an on-line group, “Terminate the Republican Party” (whose members are now celebrating their fallen comrade’s shooting spree).
The morning of June 14 wasn’t the first time that Hodgkinson took aim, so to speak, at Scalise. On his Facebook wall, not long ago, Hodgkinson shared a cartoon designed to link Scalise with “white supremacy.”
Hodgkinson was an admirer of MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, Bill Maher, and, generally, exactly those leftist talking heads and celebrities who have been routinely, incessantly, expressing precisely the same thoughts about Republicans and Trump that filled Hodgkinson with a murderous hatred toward his political opponents.
Politically or ideologically speaking, Hodgkinson is no different than the leftists in Washington D.C., the media, Hollywood, and academia.
His ideology is one and the same as that of the Obamas, Schumers, Pelosis, Clintons, Sanders, Maddows, Mahers, Robert DeNiros, Meryl Streeps, Kathy Griffins, Madonnas, Snoop Doggs, and so on ad infinitum.
In fact, it was first Barack Obama who tried to tie Scalise to “white supremacists.”
Obama’s Press Secretary, Josh Earnest, said in September of 2015 that Scalise, in effect, once admitted to being a KKK member of sorts. “You’ll recall,” Earnest proceeded, “that one Republican congressman told a reporter that he was ‘David Duke without the baggage.” Earnest brought this up in order to blast the whole GOP, but especially Trump, as “racist” and “white supremacist.”
“Mr. Trump isn’t the first Republican politician to countenance these kinds of views in order to win votes.”
Back in 2002, Scalise had addressed the European-American Unity and Rights Organization (EURO), where he made the remark in question. He subsequently referred to his comment as “a mistake” that he “regret
Nevertheless, as Charlie Spiering of Breitbart reminds us, it was with frequency that Obama’s administration “used Scalise as a punching bag” to advance its agenda. If Republicans were blocking the “immigration reform” that the Democrats wanted, Obama’s team would hold up Scalise as the poster boy for the GOP’s “white supremacy” and “racism.” This is the trick that Team Obama continued to pull from its collective sleeve, whether it was in order to remove the Confederate flag from military cemeteries or reauthorize the Voting Rights Act.
Less than a year ago, Earnest brought up Scalise’s David Duke comment to smear Trump.
James Hodgkinson was a leftist Democrat. There was nothing unusual about him. He was not “mentally ill.” Hodgkinson had imbibed hook, line, and sinker all of the DNC, left-wing talking points that “the Resistance” has been cranking out from long before its members began describing themselves in these terms.
Hodgkinson is the logical culmination of the campaign of demonization and dehumanization of Republicans and Trump-supporters that the left has been waging for decades, a campaign that leftists have been ratcheting up as of late, even since Trump and the Deplorables defied the world and defeated Hillary Clinton.
Hodgkinson is the second Sanders supporter in just a few weeks to go on a killing spree.
The first was Jeremy Christian, who
the media tried to depict as a “white supremacist” Trump supporter (Christian stabbed three men on a Portland train, killing two of them). What is it about the vision and message of Bernie Sanders that attracts homicidal followers?
These are the sorts of questions that
honest and good people who want to stop the hatred and violence must address at this time, for if not, and if the left continues with its reckless and venomous rhetoric, there will be more James Hodgkinsons in the future.
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