OPINION: The GOP are very intentional in using fear—of immigrants or “critical race theory”—to scare their supporters into action. The Buffalo shooting shows the danger that can come from pushing harmful, racist rhetoric.
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The Republican Party and conservative media pushing racist rhetoric are a clear and present danger to the domestic tranquility of the United States of America. It’s hard for me to say that as someone who was once a Republican. Wyoming Congressman Liz Cheney clearly agreed when she tweeted a similar sentiment on Monday morning.
After another tragic shooting of 13 people—10 dead, most of them Black—at a Buffalo, N.Y., grocery store by a white 18-year-old man indoctrinated into today!
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