The recent assassinations of Minnesota lawmaker Milissa Hortman and her husband have led the media to try to figure out a way to blame the Republican Party for it. On Wednesday, MSNBC’s Morning Joe invited editor of The New Republic, Michael Tomasky, to elaborate on the current state of political violence and stated that “the MAGA grip on the Republican Party, with its winking at violence” is the problem.
On Monday, Tomasky published an article titled, “America Is at a Terrifying Turning Point-and There’s No Going Back.” The motivation for his piece focused on the assassination that took place in Minnesota, Senator Padilla’s actions during Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s press conference, and ICE handling the New York City mayoral candidate, Brad Lander. To Tomasky, these events are worse than the political violence in the 1960s and 70s:
I say in this piece, we did go through a period of pretty extreme political violence in the United States in the late 1960s and early and mid-1970s. This feels worse to me. This feels more permanent. That felt like it was aberrational because it was about a couple of issues that caused a generational convulsion, Vietnam and civil rights. This though feels different because frankly, one of our two major political parties winks at, and sometimes abets, and then sometimes literally pardons political violence.
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