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The Republican Party is no longer just a political party. They should now be considered what they are fast becoming: a domestic terrorist organization preaching fear and promoting hate against anyone who doesn’t espouse their xenophobic white world-view.
The Republican Party is encouraging outright violence by their silent blessings, including by the recent overtures to white vigilante killer Kyle Rittenhouse. And when more white supremacist GOP supporters decided to act out with more forms of extreme violence, as we head into 2022, Republicans should be held responsible because of their hateful dissemination of prejudice.
The attacks by Republicans against Muslim Somalia-American Congresswoman Ilhan Omar give us our most recent example of the hate spewing from this once revered political party in America.
Star GOP jihadist Rep. Lauren Boebert was recently caught in a lie falsely claiming that Capitol Hill Police came running to a elevator in which she and Omar were in because: Omar was, supposedly, mistaken as a suicide bomber. According to Boebert, when she saw the officers coming she said, “What’s happening? I look to my left, and there she is: Ilhan Omar. And I said, well, she doesn’t have a backpack, we should be fine.”
Boebert also added this: “So we only had one floor to go. I said, ‘Oh look, the jihad squad decided to show up for work today.’”
Boebert told this spurious fable to a cheering crowd of receptive Republican supporters in Pueblo, Colorado. These are the kind of red meat lies that MAGA America loves. Who cares about the violence responses that will come from these continued inflammatory irresponsible actions?
Boebert is claiming she is sorry–since she has now been exposed as a race-baiting liar. But Boebert, and other Republicans, have been continually attacking Omar and others like Rep. Rashida Tlaib, another Muslim, as well as New York Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. They do it because it is now expected in today’s highly intolerant Republican Party.
Omar, because she is Black, female, Muslim, and an African immigrant, checks off all the boxes that makes her a perfect target to be vilified to excite the white GOP base of bigots.
Many are decrying the lack of an outraged response by Republican leadership. Omar herself has called out the weak-willed, brown-nosing, House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy. Of course, McCarthy is giving us silly responses about “reaching out” to Democrats.
But do we really expect the Trumpian insurrectionist GOP to forcefully condemn Boebert’s Islamophobic comments? Besides Boebert, the Republicans have other vile racial provocateurs like Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, and Paul Gosar of Arizona–who recently released a video depicting himself killing Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, and threatening President Joe Biden.
But none of these white supremacist Republicans are being severely punished. Indeed, they represent the most popular politicians in the GOP.
The Republican Party is now securely in the hands of the most racist reactionary, right-wing, gun-toting, segment of America. As Pueblo County Republican chair Robert Leverington said Boebert comments against Omar “probably expressed the sentiment of many Americans,” meaning Americans who support this white supremacist Republican Party. Imagine all the self-righteous sanctimonious rhetoric we would be hearing if the table was reversed?
Imagine what would happen if Omar had made a false statement saying Boebert was seen inside Congress wearing Klan regalia and carrying a gun? Imagine if Omar, or other Democrats, insinuated that Republicans should be targeted for violence by their mob of supporters?
For decades, the Republicans have been playing with racial fire using dog-whistles to gain political power in America. Inevitably, this led to the election of Donald Trump–and to the Jan. 6th attempted coup attempt on Congress by Trump’s white terrorists. The dog-whistles are now blaring bullhorns.
The main January coup plotters have still faced no accountability. They are living comfortably free. What are these people plotting to do next?
If Republicans refused to convict Trump, during his second impeachment trial, for attempting to overthrow the American government, why should we expect them to discipline this idiotic Congresswoman from Colorado?
Rep. Boebert’s racist attacks on Rep Omar is symbolic of the new Trumpian MAGA Republican party. Boebert, like Rep. Gosar, are the new face of the GOP.
The Republican Party is now a party that is excusing and condoning violence. They are currently accessories after the fact by their aiding-and- abetting of those who tried to overthrow the government on Jan. 6th. White vigilantism is also being endorsed by them. Why else are they offering Kyle Rittenhouse a job in Congress?
We must now face this dangerous fact: today’s Republican Party is a domestic terrorist operation, and its being controlled by the main terrorist living at large in Mar-a-Lago, Florida.
