Rick Wilson: Of Course Donald Trump Inspired Cesar Sayoc's Terrorism

[babylonsister]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/of-course-donald-trump-inspired-cesar-sayocs-terrorism?ref=home

Of Course Donald Trump Inspired Cesar Sayoc’s Terrorism
Sorry, Trumpies, this was no false-flag leftie or Unabomber in the woods. He is Trumpism uncut and unplugged. Deal with it.
Rick Wilson
10.26.18 3:51 PM ET

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This is why we need to look objectively at Donald Trump’s role in this affair. No one in American political life has even a fraction of Donald Trump's power to inspire behavior and action. No one. It's time we recognize that Donald Trump's unique social media presence is a weapon of radicalization. No one else in the American political landscape stokes the resentments, fears, prejudices, of his base with equal power.

Donald Trump never misses a chance to miss a chance to be bigger and better. He never fails to close the door on opportunities to be a consequential leader and not a winking, simpering buffoon who holds the title but never wears the mantle of the Presidency. Like we saw after Charlottesville, his defiance of every American norm and his eagerness to "both sides" every argument is an extended middle finger to our Republic.

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This is the future of the GOP under Trump; it’s not a party; it’s a backwater sub-Reddit careening from crisis to crisis, chasing an increasingly elaborate set of conspiracies to paper over the raging inconsistencies of the Dear Leader’s message and conduct.

Cesar Sayoc isn't just some loner gone wrong. He isn't merely a one-in-a-million Unabomber with a cabin in the woods, a crazed manifesto, and too much black powder. Cesar Sayoc is the future. Donald Trump's famously loyal base has been radicalized, and while only the tiniest fraction will resort to political violence, neither the President nor the hollow shell of the GOP will do anything to stop it.

This is a President with obvious mental and moral deficits who will say and do anything to retain power. He's backed by a runaway "conservative" media feeding his rabid base a daily dose of conspiratorial lunacy. There is no mechanism to stop Trump's division, radicalization, and calls to arms against his enemies.

America was lucky this week; none of the weapons exploded, and the FBI and state law enforcement moved with amazing speed to apprehend the bomber. We might not always be so lucky, particularly if this President continues to give what future Cesar Sayocs see as their marching orders.

[libdem4life]

1. Indeed...the Trump/Pence Rally Vehicle. n/t

[madamesilverspurs]

2. Trump can claim no innocence in this.

That said, he does not inspire, he incites.

Obama inspired, and still does. And as Trump is fond of noting, he tries to avoid doing anything Obama did.


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[robbob]

10. I believe he already has...

Just saw him on CNN at a rally ranting about how the lying media is taking one time mentally ill man and trying to “politicize it” to make him look bad! I believe that is actually the tack his is going with.

[doc03]

3. Trump should be charged with advocating political terrorism nt

[DeminPennswoods]

12. This, +1000

nt

[dubyadiprecession]

4. Trump is an enabler for mental illness.

A trump supporter attempting to murder politicians and the media is no way to make America great again.

It just turns this country into another second and third world dictatorship!

[Midnightwalk]

5. Tiny fraction my foot

Good piece. I don't agree that only the tiniest fraction would resort to political violence. Maybe true about atempted bombings and assasinations. But there are multiple examples of trump calling for political violence, roughing up protestors, offering to pay legal fees for assault. These are all explicitly supported by those cheering in the ralllies and implicitly by anyone not opposed to the terorrist in chief.

Americans are in denial and don't like to have it put this way, but that is the reality of it.

[sweetroxie]

6. Why is Trump allowed to spend his

time and our money to prosletize the masses and twist their minds in his stupid rallies? I know, I know, there's no one to stop him.

[BigmanPigman]

7. Anyone who says he isn't indirectly responsible is full of BS!

He has been a lover of murderous dictators, enables terrorists, and incites violence purposely where ever he goes and has been for years (birtherism was the beginning). He does it at 3 AM from his bathroom with his unsecured iPhone. He is doing this on purpose and he knows exactly what he is doing, and the GOP is condoning a violent, dangerous US dictator.

[keithbvadu2]

8. All the Times Trump Has Called for Violence at His Rallies

All? --- Probably not all.

[Stuart G]

13. Thank You for posting...

[OMGWTF]

9. I blame Traitor Tot for the death of that woman in Charlottsville.

[SunSeeker]

11. OMG, this totally captures today's GOP:

“This is the future of the GOP under Trump: not a party but a backwater sub-Reddit chasing conspiracies to paper over the Dear Leader's raging inconsistencies.”

[oasis]

14. No doubt about it.

[dalton99a]

15. And they are fucking crazy and demented like him

Trump is a magnet for crazies and sociopaths