Incitement
This is scary. When I say Trump is scary I’m not being hyperbolic or metaphorical, I mean scary. Getting people killed scary. Stirring up the fascist beast scary.
One of his advisers has said Clinton should be shot for treason.
A New Hampshire state representative who advises Donald Trump on veterans’ issues called Tuesday for Hillary Clinton to be “put in the firing line and shot for treason” for her handling of the Benghazi terror attack.
Appearing on WRKO radio from the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, state Representative Al Baldasaro, a Londonderry Republican, called the presumptive Democratic nominee “a piece of garbage.”
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“She is a disgrace . . . for the lies that she told those mothers about their children that got killed over there in Benghazi,” Baldasaro said of Clinton. “She dropped the ball on over 400 e-mails requesting backup security. Something’s wrong there.”
“This whole thing disgusts me,” Baldasaro said. “Hillary Clinton should be put in the firing line and shot for treason.”
This is Trump world. It’s a bad world.
A Clinton campaign spokeswoman pointed to Trump in response to Baldasaro’s remarks, saying in a statement that the nominee’s “overtaking of the Republican Party — and his constant escalation of outrageous rhetoric — is in danger of mainstreaming the kind of hatred that has long been relegated to the fringes of American politics where it belongs.”
“This week at the Republican convention, we’ve seen the clearest embodiment yet of this dangerous phenomenon,” she said.
I don’t want to live in a fascist America. I don’t want anyone to have to live there.
It would help if some of the mainstream media would actually get over their squeamishness at using the “f-word” (fascist) to describe Trump and his policies. It’s a fairly straightforward word, with a relatively simple definition, and it’s not hard to make the case that he’s an outright fascist, of the Perón and Franco isolationist variety (as opposed to the imperialist vein of Mussolini and Hirohito; Hitler, of course, was a particularly unique and awful blend of both, simultaneously using the expansionism of the imperialists and the ‘purification’ ideology of the isolationists).