{"id":1283005,"date":"2022-02-08T19:07:42","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T00:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1283005"},"modified":"2022-02-08T19:07:56","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T00:07:56","slug":"left-wing-salon-declares-gop-a-violent-terror-organization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/left-wing-salon-declares-gop-a-violent-terror-organization\/","title":{"rendered":"Left-Wing Salon Declares GOP a Violent \u2018Terror Organization\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" 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by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\"><span>The GOP has morphed from an \u201cevil insect\u201d into a full-blown \u201cterrorist organization,\u201d according to a recent <\/span><i><span>Salon<\/span><\/i><span> piece that accused Republicans and Trump supporters of seeking a war against American democracy, encouraging widescale violence against the left and minorities, and using \u201cstochastic terrorism\u201d to achieve their aims.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Titled \u201cAt last the Republican Party comes clean: It stands for terrorism and Trump, against democracy,\u201d penned by staff writer Chauncey DeVega, the Monday <\/span><i><span>Salon<\/span><\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2022\/02\/07\/at-last-the-party-comes-clean-it-stands-for-terrorism-and\/\"><span>essay<\/span><\/a><span> begins by labeling the Republican Party an \u201cevil\u201d terror group.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cIn the year-plus since the events of Jan. 6, 2021, the Republican Party has morphed, like an evil insect emerging from a chrysalis, into its final form: a terrorist organization,\u201d he writes.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">At last the Republican Party comes clean: It stands for terrorism and Trump, against democracy <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/p8zHRAzUjb\">https:\/\/t.co\/p8zHRAzUjb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Salon (@Salon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Salon\/status\/1490657190058803200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 7, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>DeVega, a senior politics writer for the left-wing online magazine, criticized the GOP for refusing to \u201cpurge\u201d those Republicans who \u201csupported, endorsed and participated in Donald Trump\u2019s coup attempt,\u201d accusing them of \u201ccompleting the \u2018legal\u2019 part of Trump\u2019s coup, even after the illegal part had failed (at least in that moment).\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cAlthough that coup attempt was not successful, the campaign against American democracy continues and is escalating, largely undeterred,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He also accused Republicans of pretending \u201cto be legitimate partners in the very system of democratic governance they are working to destroy,\u201d as well as adopting the systems of \u201cauthoritarian pseudo-democracies\u201d by allegedly passing laws to hinder Democrats from winning future elections.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cEmulating the systems of authoritarian pseudo-democracies like Russia, Hungary and Turkey, the Republicans want to replace a system of \u2018free and fair\u2019 elections (however imperfect those have been in practice) with what experts describe as \u2018competitive authoritarianism\u2019 or \u2018managed democracy,\u2019\u201d he wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to DeVega, last year\u2019s Capitol riot proves that if Republicans were to lose the popular vote, they would \u201cresort to illegal and quasi-legal means to obtain, keep and maximize power.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Blasting \u201chysterical and imaginary claims of censorship\u201d by the right, he warned of \u201cTrump and his spokespeople\u201d encouraging \u201celiminationist violence\u201d against the \u201cimaginary \u2018Left-wing MOB\u2019 that is \u2018destroying our Nation.\u2019\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>He also accused former President Trump of having \u201chinted at the possibility of widespread racist violence, directed in particular against Black people,\u201d while the \u201cright-wing propaganda echo chamber\u201d circulates \u201cthe white supremacist \u2018Great Replacement\u2019 fantasy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThese claims are an encouragement to preemptive violence against Black and brown people, Muslims and other perceived undesirables,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>For years, DeVega writes, former President Trump \u201cand the larger neofascist movement behind him\u201d have used \u201cstochastic terrorism\u201d \u2014 a propaganda technique in which <\/span><span><br \/><\/span><span>\u201ccoded appeals are used to encourage political violence\u201d \u2014 to achieve their goals.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But it is \u201cnothing new,\u201d he claims, as it \u201chas been a key feature of right-wing media and the \u2018conservative\u2019 movement\u201d for decades.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He also claimed that the 2021 Capitol riot emboldened \u201cRepublican fascists and the larger white right,\u201d resulting in \u201cmillions of Republicans and Trump supporters [who] are prepared to support political violence in order to return Trump to power and to protect what they understand as America\u2019s \u2018traditional values\u2019 (meaning white privilege and white power).\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_19809690\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1230450752.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19809690\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1230450752.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"690\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Former US President Donald Trump speaks to supporters from The Ellipse near the White House on January 6, 2021, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski \/ AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>\u201cAn unknown proportion of those people are willing to engage in such violence personally,\u201d he asserted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Arguing that \u201c[m]any Trumpists and other neofascists are flying all-black U.S. flags at rallies or outside their homes to signal that they will offer no mercy in a future armed battle against Democrats, liberals, progressives and others deemed to be \u2018un-American,\u2019\u201d he warned of a dark and violent future.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWhite supremacist and other neofascist paramilitaries are marching in the streets of major American cities in a campaign of intimidation (and recruitment),\u201d he wrote. \u201cHistorically Black colleges and universities have been targeted by bomb threats.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIn an eerie repeat of one of the worst chapters in human history, Republicans and their followers are endorsing book bans \u2014 and even staging public book burnings,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Describing former President Trump as \u201can entrepreneur of racial and ethnic violence,\u201d he compared the 45th president to foreign leaders who\u2019ve \u201cused fear, lies, stereotypes and other dehumanizing and eliminationist rhetoric and threats of violence to encourage ethnic genocide.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The essay concluded by warning of the many white people willing to target black and brown people in violent campaigns.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cTrump has made it clear that he wants a \u2018race war,\u2019 in which Black and brown people are targeted for wide-scale violence by white people,\u201d he wrote.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThere may be thousands, or tens of thousands (or even more) of white people willing to follow his orders,\u201d he added. \u201cThe danger is extreme.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In October, a shockingly anti-white and anti-Christian <\/span><i><span>Salon<\/span><\/i><span> piece by DeVega <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/10\/26\/salon-white-christianity-fuels-fascism-republican-movement-objectively-evil\/\"><span>referred<\/span><\/a><span> to \u201cthe Republican fascist movement\u201d as \u201cobjectively evil,\u201d hoping that \u201cpeople of color\u201d die out in the battle against \u201cmultiracial democracy,\u201d while accusing \u201cwhite Christians\u201d of embracing lies, terrorism, white supremacy, and fascism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Last February, another <\/span><i><span>Salon<\/span><\/i><span> essay penned by DeVega <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/02\/28\/salon-conservatives-new-good-germans-nazi-era-seek-friendly-fascism\/\"><span>accused<\/span><\/a><span> Republicans of resembling \u201cgood Germans\u201d of the Nazi era \u2014 wishing to believe they are decent people while hiding behind \u201cfictions of plausible deniability for the evils committed by their leader,\u201d as he described today\u2019s conservatism as seeking \u201cfriendly fascism\u201d masked in an appeal to return to \u201ctraditional values.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The essay comes as the left continues to routinely describe conservatives as a domestic threat to democracy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>On Monday, the <\/span><i><span>Washington Post <\/span><\/i><span>published a piece <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2022\/02\/07\/republicans-embrace-authoritarianism-insurrection-legtimate-political-discourse\/?utm_campaign=wp_opinions&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter\"><span>declaring<\/span><\/a><span> that the GOP \u201chas become the Jan. 6 Party\u201d that \u201cstands for insurrection and authoritarianism\u201d and \u201cantidemocracy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The essay concludes that \u201cthe party of death\u201d is now \u201ca radical nationalist-populist party that poses a dire danger to U.S. democracy \u2014 and to the lives of ordinary Americans.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14769037\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1229002226.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14769037\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1229002226.png\" alt=\"Supporters of US President Donald Trump hold signs and wave US national flags during a rally in Beverly Hills, California, October 10, 2020. (Photo by Kyle Grillot \/ AFP) (Photo by KYLE GRILLOT\/AFP via Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supporters of US President Donald Trump hold signs and wave US national flags during a rally in Beverly Hills, California, October 10, 2020. (Photo by Kyle Grillot \/ AFP) (Photo by KYLE GRILLOT\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>Last month, the <\/span><i><span>New York Times<\/span><\/i><span> published a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/01\/14\/nyt-warns-of-right-wing-threat-to-democracy-calls-to-war-game-insurgency-secession-civil-war\/\"><span>piece<\/span><\/a><span> claiming the U.S. may be on the verge of collapse due to right-wing threats on democracy while calling to intensify \u201cwar games\u201d for scenarios concerning the 2024 presidential elections such as \u201cinsurrection, secession, insurgency and civil war\u201d in order to avert \u201cpolitical decay\u201d of the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In August, left-wing documentary filmmaker Michael Moore <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/08\/17\/michael-moore-equates-our-taliban-capitol-rioters-with-islamic-taliban-terrorists\/\"><span>compared<\/span><\/a><span> rioters who entered the U.S. Capitol in January last year to radical Taliban terrorists, calling the former \u201cour Taliban\u201d and claiming that, along with their Afghan counterparts, they are \u201cat their best\u201d when seizing symbols of power.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><em>Follow Joshua Klein on Twitter&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joshuaklein_\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@JoshuaKlein<\/a><\/em><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The GOP has morphed from an \u201cevil insect\u201d into a full-blown \u201cterrorist organization,\u201d according to a recent Salon piece that accused Republicans and Trump supporters of seeking a war against &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1283005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1283005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1283005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1283005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1283005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}