every time I see one of these analyses about how Republicans radicalized their base by repeating destructive messages they didn’t ever intend to carry out just to fire people up to support Their Team, and then being surprised when people actually believed the meaning of the words they said and wanted to do the thing those words meant instead of just voting for their team
I think “this is the same exact thing, the same exact thing in every way, the left is doing with all this #killallmen #killallwhitepeople shit.” like every single defense of that, maps with 100% accuracy to a right-wing defense of their garbage media stoking outrage and terror and hatred without regard to long-term consequence. because “we don’t really mean it that way” and “they aren’t supposed to take it like that” and “it’s just venting” and “it’s okay because they won’t really do the things we’re telling them to do”
this is going to happen again from the other side
because nobody ever learns anything