At the same time the Republican Party enabled the rise of Donald Trump, it also enabled fringe-y right-wing hate to move to the mainstream. We saw it in Charlottesville in August 2017, and we've seen it in the neo-Nazis who have popped up at rallies, in curbside fights in New York City, on GOP ballots and even at the White House.
Today we apparently saw it in at least five pipe bombs delivered to prominent Democrats and to a major cable news network, all of whom Trump has specifically vilified in tweets and at his cultish MAGA "shows" across America.
None of the bombs went off, thank goodness. But all day we've been thinking of the four young girls killed at Birmingham's 16th Street Baptist Church in 1963, and the 168 people murdered in Oklahoma City in 1995. Domestic terrorism can target the famous or the obscure, but its source is almost always right-wing.
We heard an MSNBC commentator state this afternoon that Trump is not responsible for the pipe bombs. He merely "encouraged" some basement-dwelling hater to assemble and deliver them.
We disagree. These bombs were assassination attempts, for which Trump is totally and completely responsible. And so is the soulless, unprincipled Republican Party. We cats HISS.
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