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Heather Cox Richardson 5/14/2025
MAGA and Trump “Bathed in political violence”
#politics #maga #republicans #denial #alt #fascism #extremism #jan6 #proudboys #gunfetish #chrismurphy #conneticut #padilla
Heather Cox Richardson 5/14/2025
MAGA and Trump “Bathed in political violence”
![Heather Cox Richardson 5/14/2025
MAGA and Trump “Bathed in political violence”
Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) noted that MAGA has been “bathed in political violence” for the last five years. Trump's pardoning of the January 6 rioters, including those convicted of extreme violence, "became a clear endorsement of violence committed in his name.” Trump has encouraged violence and cozied up to brutal dictators, while MAGA has fetishized guns. When he celebrates violence, unhinged people listen. Murphy points out that while people of all political persuasions commit violence, no Democratic leader encourages violence as a political norm the way Trump and MAGA have done, citing “a straight line from Jan 6 to the pardons to the assault on Sen[ator] Padilla to Minnesota.”](/proxy/post_attachment/1942224/005f72128b.jpeg "Heather Cox Richardson 5/14/2025
MAGA and Trump “Bathed in political violence”
Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) noted that MAGA has been “bathed in political violence” for the last five years. Trump's pardoning of the January 6 rioters, including those convicted of extreme violence, \"became a clear endorsement of violence committed in his name.” Trump has encouraged violence and cozied up to brutal dictators, while MAGA has fetishized guns. When he celebrates violence, unhinged people listen. Murphy points out that while people of all political persuasions commit violence, no Democratic leader encourages violence as a political norm the way Trump and MAGA have done, citing “a straight line from Jan 6 to the pardons to the assault on Sen[ator] Padilla to Minnesota.”")