Rejected them in record numbers at every level of government? That's funny, considering Democratic candidates won the popular vote for the presidency by 3 million votes and for the Senate by 11 million.
You persist in the delusion that those numbers have any legal meaning whatsoever. In fact, they are distorted by one state with extreme political views and practices, which is locked down by the Democrats. Republicans were not on the ballot in the Senate race in California, where the Democratic winner received 7.5 million votes, and the loser, ALSO A DEMOCRAT, received 4.7 million votes. That, in case your math skills are no better than your research skills, comes to over 12 million votes, in an election with no Republican candidate. Now let's talk about that 11 million vote majority, if you're done playing moron.
That might be because he fails to reach even the basic semblance of adequacy and competence that used to be the norm in politics. Let's not confuse the issue by trying to pretend Trump is a normal president who deserves a normal amount of respect. Here as well, the issue at hand didn't even require such nonsense and the point could've been made without it; ask yourself what things would've been like with, say, President Ted Cruz, and you'll see that a large part of this atmosphere of hatred on the left would've been there even with a serious Republican president, except maybe for the kind of Republican who is so moderate he/she'd never win the primary anyway.
That rather depends on who 'they' is - certainly, some people on the left are doing that, but if 'they' means Democratic leadership, that's a pretty far-reaching accusation.
And that's an obnoxiously disingenuous distinction. Not that Pelosi and co are above using extreme rhetoric concerning Trump & supporters, but they also benefit by the media's extremism and voluntarily undertaking the role of attack dogs for the Democrats. Obama was able to cruise through his campaigns taking the high road, because journalists would do his mudslinging for him. One e-mail was leaked of a journalist in 2008 to colleagues suggesting that they "make an example" of one of Obama's critics, to smear and trash such a person, in order to send a message that strong criticism would not be tolerated, and the e-mail was rife with violent imagery, like smashing their hypothetical victim through a window and hitting him with a cinder block. Republicans are demonized for connections to violence that exists only in left-wing heads, while Democrats and Leftists commit the overwhelming majority of political violence.
Comparing Trump to Hitler is asinine and, I agree, the kind of hateful rhetoric that we can do without. With you there. The second part is another big stretch, though. Not that Pelosi's statement isn't hyperbolic and cheap, but interpreting 'a grave threat to our planet' as a call to violence is pretty silly.
Basically agree with the above, except that a quick check on Wikipedia doesn't back up the bit about Giffords' attacker being left-wing at all (hater of GW Bush, yes, but if those two things were one and the same, one would have to conclude most of the Tea Party is left-wing). Possibly further research would change that.
You could write the above paragraph about rather a long list of left-wing individuals and it would be more or less accurate. That doesn't make it okay or even remotely helpful to write it about 'the political left' as a whole, though. You don't solve the problem of political polarization and demonization of the other side pushing people into violence, by further promoting polarization and further demonizing the other side.
At this point, it's well beyond calls for civility. It's one thing not to turn the other cheek, but the Right ran out of cheeks more than 50 years ago.
Pot, meet kettle. Kettle, pot. Though the point remains valid even so. There's nothing wrong with focusing first on the faults of the other side, it's what anyone would do - as long as you have the intellectual honesty to then reflect on your own side as well. Maybe not necessarily in the same column - possibly I'm being unfair on this guy. But, like Joe, I can only judge him by the one column.
WHAT REPUBLICANS HAVE BEEN DOING THIS STUFF? Aside from an atheistic drug user blowing up the Alfred E Murrah building, there are no acts of political violence by Republicans or Conservatives. Even the only Democratic president ever to be assassinated, was killed by a communist, and it is Democrats who are most supportive of the terrorist demographics. In the haste to protect Muslims, leftists love to point out that most of the terrorism in the US is committed by white people, almost all of whom are Democratic constituents, like environmentalists. To find a Republican committing political violence, you have to go back to President Garfield, who was explicitly killed by a supporter of his more radical vice president.
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