'MAGA Whips Up Conspiracy Theories To Muddy An Act Of Right-Wing Violence'
"It took only hours after an allegedly Trump-supporting gunman shot multiple Democratic state lawmakers and their spouses for the right-wing misinformation machine to chug into action."
"The right-wing machine’s task, obfuscating this clear-cut episode of right-wing political violence, should have been difficult. In addition to a manifesto, which has not been released, Boelter had written down the names of other targets: a list, per an FBI affidavit, of 'mostly or all' Democratic politicians, reportedly in addition to abortion providers and activists. The anti-abortion motivation slots in neatly with archetypal right-wing violence, which has often involved misogynistic elements."
"There was also, by Sunday, an easily excavated tranche of evidence suggesting his political ideology: interviews with his roommate who said he’d be 'offended' to be called a Democrat, that he was a staunch Trump supporter and that he considered abortion to be 'murder,' along with a sermon he’d delivered about the evils of abortion-supporting American churches."
"The Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (the state’s Democratic Party) even released data showing that he voted in the state’s primary last year, but not as a Democrat. The state Republican Party declined to release its own data. Friends and colleagues told the Associated Press that he is a devout Christian who attended Trump rallies."
"But right-wing influencers (both in and out of office) and the vast social media and formal media apparatus from which they disseminate their theories required no real evidence to spread their perma-thesis: Right-wing violence doesn’t really exist. When those on the right (routinely) commit it, they are either secretly liberal (the story they told in this case), it wasn’t actually violence (Jan. 6 'tourists') or their victims deserved the violence they experienced (the hammer attack on Paul Pelosi)."
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