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Hiku said:
melbye said:

This has as much to do with Trump as the Bernie-supporter who shot Steve Scalise has to do with Bernie Sanders

Yes, because Bernie encouraged violence among his own people.
In fact I have some Bernie quotes here:


(It's missing some of my favorite quotes though, like "I'll pay your legal fees" and "maybe you second amendment people can do something about it.")

Don't make false equivalences. I saw this inaccurate Bernie comparison from Lindsey Graham and certain right wing media, and I expected people to parrot it in this thread without even considering why people are discussing Trump.
It's not because this person was a Trump fan. That would be ridiculous. It's because of Trump encouraging violence. Both politically motivated violence, and otherwise. This is not normal for a president in a non authoritarian country. And what a president says, when millions of people look up to him (and some event believe he was sent by God), has consequences.

thismeintiel said:

Or the guy who sent white powder to Reps just a few weeks ago. Of course, that doesn't help with the narrative, so those stories are dropped quickly.

No one in Washington (to my knowledge) has encouraged political violence, except for Trump.
That has been the narrative for a few years now. This is not a new subject.
If Bernie had told his supporters to injure protesters, or "Maybe you second amendment people can do something about it", etc, then yes, his influence on the shooter would have been considered and his behavior criticized.

But as it stands, we can't say that Bernie has said anything that promoted violence among his supporters.
The same however can not be said of Trump.

Remember what Maxine Waters said about confronting republicans, the this happened

"A Republican candidate for the Minnesota House said Monday that he is recovering after suffering a concussion from an attack at a restaurant in St. George Township a few days earlier."

http://www.startribune.com/minnesota-house-candidate-says-he-was-attacked-at-benton-county-restaurant/497605921/