Calling Trump a Tyrant Is Not a Call to Violence
Conservatives want to police how we talk about Trump—while excusing how the president talks about everyone else.
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Jonathan Chait: Calling Trump a Tyrant Is Not a Call to Violence, and Trump is, objectively assessed, a tyrant. Conservatives want to police how we talk about Trump—while excusing how the president talks about everyone else www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Calling Trump a Tyrant Is Not a Call to Violence Conservatives want to police how we talk about Trump—while excusing how the president talks about everyone else www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
The Atlantic today: Calling Trump a Tyrant Is Not a Call to Violence Conservatives want to police how we talk about Trump—while excusing how the president talks about everyone else. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
“Conservatives want to police how we talk about Donald Trump—while excusing how the president talks about everyone else,” Jonathan Chait argues: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Calling Trump a Tyrant Is Not a Call to Violence. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
“Conservatives want to police how we talk about Trump—while excusing how the president talks about everyone else.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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The right's penchant for hypocrisy is remarkably consistent & abundant. Every accusation is a confession. The darker and more twisted, the more it's something of which they are even more guilty. And the media consistently lets them get away with it - something that really needs to change, stop.
"Calling Trump a Tyrant Is Not a Call to Violence" "He's spent a decade calling his rivals communists & traitors & other hyperbolic insults" To all the MAGA & GOP hypocrites Enough with your BS outrage Sit your asses down & #stfu Thx @jonathanbchait.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Calling Trump a Tyrant Is Not a Call to Violence Conservatives want to police how we talk about Trump—while excusing how the president talks about everyone else.
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"The norm that many Trump-supporting conservatives seek to enforce is not a prohibition on violent rhetoric or even limits on attacking politicians who are seen as threats to democracy, but a one-sided ban imposed on Trump’s critics so that the president can do as he wishes." - Jonathan Chait
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trump celebrates and encourages violence every freaking day. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
"To describe Donald Trump as a corrupt aspiring authoritarian is not to conclude that he should be murdered. "This ought to be a simple point to understand. Yet it is lost on a large swath of the American right." www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Jonathan Chait fires back at Trump, Karoline Leavitt, and the NY Post for demanding Democrats stop calling Trump authoritarian after the arrest of shooter Cole Tomas Allen. Describing fascism accurately isn't incitement. The projection here is suffocating.
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"The norm that many Trump-supporting conservatives seek to enforce is not a prohibition on violent rhetoric or even limits on attacking politicians who are seen as threats to democracy, but a one-sided ban imposed on Trump’s critics so that the president can do as he wishes." - Jonathan Chait
Calling Trump a tyrant and would-be dictator is not a call to violence, despite howls from Republican leaders after the latest assasination attempt. Here is another great 'gift' article from The Atlantic: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202... Please repost so others can read this too!
We'd all love to see Trump keel over. But, we're smart enough to realize that has to happen naturally. We're not dumb enough to hand the opposition a martyr. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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By the way, Trump is Temu Viktor Orban… https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/04/trump-language-policing/686977/?gift=Ut5zkH9vG00uzi0vmoT5f6LyExD-UgFHT29ZxBmQjlU
“The norm that many Trump-supporting conservatives seek to enforce is not a prohibition on violent rhetoric or even limits on attacking politicians who are seen as threats to democracy, but a one-sided ban imposed on Trump’s critics so that the president can do as he wishes.”
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This claim suffers three serious defects. First, it assumes that violence is the only logical response to an attempt to undermine democracy. In reality, Trump’s assault on democratic norms can be—and in fact, is being—successfully resisted through democratic means www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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Best reason to avoid political violence is that it HELPS those who are authoritarian. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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"Calling Trump a Tyrant Is Not a Call to Violence" "He's spent a decade calling his rivals communists & traitors & other hyperbolic insults" To all the MAGA & GOP hypocrites Enough with your BS outrage Sit your asses down & #stfu Thx @jonathanbchait.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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Calling Trump a Tyrant Is Not a Call to Violence Conservatives want to police how we talk about Trump—while excusing how the president talks about everyone else www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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Blanche is pathetic. Comey did NOT threaten the incompetent, racist buffoon who’s trying to destroy democracy. However, that buffoon has threatened his former VP, Sec Clinton, the sitting Congress in 2020, & condoned violence on Jan 6. Disbar Todd. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Conservatives want to police how we talk about Donald Trump—while excusing how the president talks about everyone else, Jonathan Chait argues: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Chait—Describing Trump “as a corrupt aspiring authoritarian is not to conclude that he should be murdered. This ought to be a simple point to understand. Yet it is lost on a large swath of the American right..” I‘m not sure it’s lost on most—they‘re just using it to win a political argument.
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No, that is not true. @jessicadenson07.bsky.social is committed to nonviolence. This kind of reasoning is like shooting the messenger or blaming fire fighters for a fire instead of the arsonists. DJT & the #CorruptGOP are the ones with all the matches. Their rhetoric encourages violence. #Resist
tRump has spent a decade calling his rivals communists and traitors, among other hyperbolic insults. Taking violent steps to stop undemocratic political leaders follows much more closely from tRump’s rhetoric than from Anything Democrats have said about him.
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Calling Trump a Tyrant Is Not a Call to Violence www.theatlantic.com/politics/202... To describe Donald Trump as a corrupt aspiring authoritarian is not to conclude that he should be murdered. This ought to be a simple point to understand.
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Trump has been glorifying and stoking violence since he entered politics. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
GOP hypocrisy… Gift article/No paywall www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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embodiments of hypocrisy. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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Exactly ! If the shoe fits! www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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www.theatlantic.com/politics/202... Calling him to out for his crimes and policies is not a call for violence. 86 47 is not a threat, it's a prayer. #Fascist #Dictator #Pedophile #Rapist #ChildAbuser #WarCriminal #Murderer #Racist #WhiteChristianNationalist #Nazi
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Conservatives want to police how we talk about Donald Trump—while excusing how the president talks about everyone else, Jonathan Chait argues: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
This is behind a paywall, but I cannot agree more with the premise that MAGA Republicans want to police how we talk about Trump—while excusing how the president talks about everyone else. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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A reminder Trump sent a mob of terrorists to violently attack Congress in a failed coup attempt to overthrow the government of The United States. And Trump shared video of the U.S. military bombing Chicago. Tone down the rhetoric. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
... Trump’s assault on democratic norms [is being] successfully resisted through democratic means. In #Hungary, Viktor Orbán [attempted the] same power-consolidation strategy that #Trump is attempting now, and voters defeated him through peaceful #organizing. #WeThePeople are #TheResistance 🗽
Not only does DT not have the right to curb dissent, in a civilized society, he shouldn't be a free man, let alone an elected official. He led mob of terrorists to violently attack Congress in a failed coup attempt to overthrow the United States government. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Jonathan Chait delivers the goods in this Atlantic article rightly calling out the MAGA’s language policing of criticism of Donald Trump, and that such criticism like calling him a “tyrant” or using “86 47” isn’t a call to violence in any way. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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Let’s see them try to police our speech once the inevitable happens & the entire world erupts in celebration.
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"It demonstrates as well that the Trumpian right’s supposed abhorrence for violence and antiauthoritarian rhetoric is purely selective."
In the land of free speech, conservatives want to police how we talk about Trump - while excusing how the president talks about everyone else. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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Calling Trump a Tyrant Is Not a Call to Violence Conservatives want to police how we talk about Trump—while excusing how the president talks about everyone else. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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www.theatlantic.com/politics/202... It's ironic to see the press question journalists about their so-called heated rhetoric in regard to Trump, when they have been on the receiving end of Trump's heated attacks on the press.
"They would likewise acknowledge that even most dictators fall far short of the horrors of Hitlerism. That distinction is widely, if not universally, understood, which is why the rallies are called 'No Kings,' not 'No Führers.'” {gift link} www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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Interesting take from @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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"Trump has been glorifying and stoking violence since he entered politics." Calling Trump a Tyrant Is Not a Call to Violence - The Atlantic www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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Hypocritical Assholes: 👇 #ThatAsshole has specifically claimed that Dems rig elections as a matter of course. Taking violent steps to stop undemocratic political leaders follows much more closely from his rhetoric than from anything Democrats have said about him. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202... Yep, authoritarianism has arrived.
"Trump’s efforts to exploit the latest attempt on his life illuminate his motives."
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Conservatives advocate for regulating discussions about Trump, highlighting a double standard as they overlook the president's own rhetoric towards others.