Gunshots reportedly fired at Donald Trump rally - as former president rushed off stage

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Gunshots reportedly fired at Donald Trump rally - as former president rushed off stage
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The Boogaloo crowd just got handed exactly what they needed to, in their minds, justify basically anything.

They were going to do that anyway, but nevertheless.

This has immense rhetorical power in terms of amping up support. It makes it easier to recruit, justify, pursue goals, etc.

Put in in Hoi4 terms. If 'political capital' can be reasonably simplified into a score, a currency, this is 'bank error in your favor, have a buttload of free points.'

...with which you can more easily pursue a wide variety of actions or policies.

Nah, he's still a fascist and when anyone reads up on Project 2025 is not going to change their mind about him over this.

It's not those who care about it that are an issue here

Sure, but awareness is spreading like wildfire. People underestimate Americans. Once a critical mass of Americans start pushing in one way, it's next to impossible to stop them.

Oh, I sure hope you are right, and since there's contradictory hearsay I will only know when it happens anyway

You're absolutely right. However, they were going to find a reason regardless, since violence was always their end goal.

If it wasn't this idiot it would have been something else: Trump losing the election is any easy one. The "Boogaloo crowd" resorting to violence was inevitable -- the only thing that has changed is we can no longer pretend it's tomorrow's problem.

It is the match being held to the fuse of the powder keg.

Today is going to be a chapter in the future textbook entitled, “The Fall of the American Empire.”

You’re absolutely right. However, they were going to find a reason regardless, since violence was always their end goal.

Any excuse will serve a tyrant - Aesop

I agree, its just that this makes it ludicrously easy for them to do that.

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