Lucas,
“If she gets to pick her judges — there’s nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don’t know.”
That’s right. Donald Trump suggested shooting Hillary Clinton.
Sign the petition from CREDO and Daily Kos to Senate Majority Leader McConnell
and Speaker of the House Ryan: Withdraw your support of Donald Trump’s
candidacy.
While Sec. Clinton is the latest target of Trump’s dangerous dog
whistling, she’s not the only one. Trump has relentlessly attacked
Khizr and Ghazala Khan, whose son was killed in Iraq and who directly
challenged Trump’s anti-Muslim hate in a speech at the Democratic
National Convention. In June, Trump launched racist attacks on federal
judge Gonzalo Curiel because of his Mexican heritage. Those recent examples
add to a long litany of ugly, racist, xenophobic remarks from the Republican
nominee that have already corresponded with an increase in hate crimes
against Muslims. As his candidacy puts more and more Americans at risk,
it’s time for Republican leaders to stop supporting Trump.
When anti-abortion extremists and Republican politicians demonize and
dehumanize abortion providers, they are complicit in the murder of doctors
and the bombing of clinics. This is the same type of dangerous game Trump
is playing – and it isn’t the first time his campaign has
resorted to violent rhetoric. Trump has frequently encouraged supporters
at rallies to respond to protesters with violence, previously joked about
shooting someone on the street in New York, and one of his staff
suggested that Sec. Clinton should be "put in the firing line and shot."
It’s appalling that cowardly Republicans are still standing with him.
The leaders of the Republican party have been pandering to their party’s
extremist, racist base and legitimizing a politics of hate and violence
by denouncing Trump’s rhetoric while endorsing his candidacy. It’s
now clear that supporting a Trump presidency means standing with a dangerous
demagogue who is undermining our democracy. It’s time for Republican
politicians to withdraw their support for Trump.
Tell Republican party leaders: Show that your party is not a party of hate
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Keep fighting,
Monique Teal, Daily Kos