The most common tell in his enraged statements is that he, like most MAGA cultists, accuse others of exactly what he does regularly, and brazenly. For him, though, that is moral righteousness.
“Instructing people on how to protest peacefully is an act of treason and you should be hanged for it.”
Mmmmmkay. I wish I was leaving out some sort of nuance or context, but no. That’s straight up what he’s saying, unapologetically.
Republican rhetoric follows Le Bon’s The Crowd method: Affirmation, Repetition and Contagion.
First they espouse an idea or belief (ex. Radical Left are violent animals). The crowd accepts these statements as true, regardless of reality.
Then blast it on repeat through every medium so it becomes internalized in their minds.
Finally, the contagion phase, where the crowd is spurned to action, whether it is getting out to vote, storming the capital or going door to door murdering “The Enemy Within.”
It’s not difficult to see what the fascist intent is behind the extreme violent rhetoric.
An Arizona Republican lawmaker on Wednesday called for the execution of a Democratic congresswoman because she urged people upset with President Donald Trump to protest in the streets.
The post Gillette responded to claimed that Jayapal was making a call to violence because she said protesters should be “strike ready” and “street ready.” The Arizona Mirror watched the video in its entirety and found no calls to violence or advocating for overthrowing the government; it was focused on “non-violent resistance” to Trump and advising people on how to do that.
In contrast, Gillette has expressed support for the Trump supporters who stormed the U.S. Capitol in January 2021, who violently assaulted police officers and broke down doors and windows in order to access the building so they could stop Congress from certifying the 2020 election. In several posts on X, he called the 1,600 or so people who were prosecuted — and since pardoned by Trump — for their actions that day “political prisoners.”
He refused to answer questions when the Mirror reached him by phone on Thursday.
Coward.
How’s that NOT inciting violence‽
Reactionaries don’t care about the truth. They play rhetorical games and are only concerned with “winning” the current argument.
Furthermore, their morality is not concerned with fairness or making the world a better place for everyone. Instead, they firmly believe that an action is right or wrong because of who does it.
They also don’t care about hypocrisy; rather, they revel in flaunting the fact that rules are for other, lesser people.
Ever accusation is a proud statement of violence from these typical Republicans.
May his calls for violence be answered back on him.
Rep. John Gillette ® is an antifa member of the “radical Left” then, right? As defined by Republicans and Trump saying how it’s those groups calling for political violence.
You first, Mr GOP
Would be fucking nice if this community wasn’t complicit in suppressing dissenters like reddit mods
