The deliberate dehumanization of whole groups of people; the references to police, to violence, to the “bloodbath” that Trump has said will unfold if he doesn’t win; the cultivation of hatred not only against immigrants but also against political opponents—none of this has been used successfully in modern American politics.
About that...The 'bloodbath' remark was not in the sense of going out and murdering people. So, just more out of context.
But one side in this has used violence, and plenty of it.
They have dehumanized all who do not support their socialist utopian vision* as "MAGA", or "-phobic" forgetting what any of that stands for--or at least hoping you do.
(*A vision which we know has never worked, instead it has historically has decayed rapidly into totalitarianism and bloodshed, pogroms, purges, and genocide.)
Police as in preventing violence, in holding those who commit it accountable. Not the pretend 'violence' of hurting someone's feelings by disagreeing, but the violence that burns business districts and kills people--or forces them to defend themselves in order to avoid being killed. Of course the Left hates it when their intimidation tactics are thwarted.
As for "hatred against immigrants", no not really, not those here legally and legitimately as people who came here to become Americans. But those who were shipped here in bulk, with no accountability, and distributed to small towns to seriously disrupt their way of life (and, of course be fast tracked into voting Democrat), there is a problem. They are here in violation of our laws, aided and abetted by people who were sworn to uphold the laws of these United States. That presence is illegitimate, and it and their co-conspirators and accessories should be dealt with according to our law.
Maybe hard working and responsible Americans could afford to have more kids if they were not absorbing the financial burden of supporting people here illegally, through their taxes, through the burden of inflation from printing fortunes to subsidize these illegals, and through having to struggle to find jobs in a marked glutted with cheap labor from elsewhere.
And as for hatred against political opponents, I may be disgusted, I may be confounded trying to understand the warped logic of how hating on the people paying the bills is going to make anything better, or how calling repeatedly, from some of the most bully pulpits in the land for the murder of an opponent gives someone the right to point that finger.
The only mentions of violence against others by the Right has been to assert the right of self defense should the Left have another batch of tantrums and start burning and looting cities and towns again.
It was Valerie Jarrett who was talking about "paybacks", not any of Trump's crew. Hillary who it seems it is dangerous to testify against. Biden who called for Trump's elimination just weeks before an assassination attempt.
No such rhetoric from the Right.
And it was the Left who censored social media platforms and who has the broadcast media all reading from the same twisted script.
If I had to choose who was the far greater threat to life and liberty, the Left wins hands down. They are the totalitarians in this, and typically, they are pointing the finger at others for what they, themselves, do.
I disagree with that, and by virtue of that disagreement, am a threat to their dreams of totalitarian rule. That makes me their enemy in their eyes, something less than human.
I don't want them to get to the next step. We've seen that story before, and no matter the eventual victor, the road through it is soaked with the blood of good people, people who have been misled by their media and their leaders, leaders like Stalin, Mussolini, and Hitler.
