Breaking the Sound Barrier
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Weekly Column Friday, October 2, 2020
** There’s No Debating It: Trump Encourages Violent White Supremacists
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By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan
“Proud Boys, stand back and stand by,” President Donald Trump declared at his first presidential debate with Joe Biden. Trump was asked by Fox News moderator Chris Wallace to denounce white supremacists. Instead, Trump issued a clarion call to the Proud Boys, a growing rightwing extremist group of Trump loyalists formed in 2016, openly promoting political violence.
One clear take away from the debate: Trump is desperate to sow division in the country and distrust of the electoral system, and is eagerly recruiting violent vigilantes to help. “Trump basically said to go f—k them up. This makes me so happy,” prominent Proud Boy Joe Biggs wrote on social media.
“It’s crystal clear to the Proud Boys what he was asking for: continued pressure, continued violence against what he is calling the threat of the left,” Christian Picciolini, said on the Democracy Now! news hour. Picciolini, a former skinhead neo-Nazi, co-founded the Free Radicals Project to prevent global extremism. “There is no threat from the left…over the last 25 years, far-right extremists — everything from neo-Nazis to white supremacists to white nationalists — are responsible for nearly 100% of the violence, 100% of the death and 100% of the fear and rhetoric and propaganda inducing this type of violence.” Two recent reports from the Center for Strategic and International Studies indicate...Read More → ([link removed])
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