It does! So naturally we must condemn all violence, because if there was a good faith “second amendment person” who would pop off at an aspiring tyrant, that would be too much.
You needn’t any moral virtue to condemn assassinations. Assassinations are stupidly ineffective political tools. Especially if you’re trying to change the social order instead of enforce it.
Right wing people have been accusing me of hypocrisy for condemning the attempt on Trump’s life while considering him a threat to the country. But that argument assumes that political violence works. (which says more about how they think than I)
It does! So naturally we must condemn all violence, because if there was a good faith “second amendment person” who would pop off at an aspiring tyrant, that would be too much.
You needn’t any moral virtue to condemn assassinations. Assassinations are stupidly ineffective political tools. Especially if you’re trying to change the social order instead of enforce it.
Right wing people have been accusing me of hypocrisy for condemning the attempt on Trump’s life while considering him a threat to the country. But that argument assumes that political violence works. (which says more about how they think than I)
If he would have died, he would have been raised up as a martyr. Martyrdom can be way more dangerous in the greater scheme imo
Disagree. I don’t think his cult of personality survives him.
You give people more credit than I do, but history proven that is potentially not the case