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El Uro (AKA Vlad)'s avatar

If I understand you correctly, it is Trump's rhetoric that is the reason for the BLM riots in Democrat-run cities.

Thank you for opening my eyes!

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Smarticat's avatar

Of the stew of ingredients that produced the Summer 2020 riots, yes Donald Trump was *one* of the many matches tossed into the fire, at least in part due to his failure at leadership and crisis management - and the long simmering cracks he helped widen in differences and relations, particularly racial. Sorry for the mixed metaphor though!

If it makes you feel better, I do hold local and state officials accountable as well that allowed disorder to continue for far too long, and minimized their responsibility for public safety and order.

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El Uro (AKA Vlad)'s avatar

"If it makes you feel better" - No, it doesn't.

I remember "mostly peaceful protests", students in London screaming to police "Don't shoot" (in London!), red vaginas. Of course, Trump ignited them. He was elected by Putin, who also created Cambridge Analytica and Brexit.

You know what's most interesting. Progressives never admit their own mistakes. Never! On the contrary, the more stupid mistake they make, the more efforts they make to go in the wrong direction, following Hegel's maxim "if facts contradict theory, then so much the worse for the facts."

NetZero to 2030 is a classical example of this arrogance of educated idiots.

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