Very fine people on both sides!

In the wake of yesterday’s assassination attempts on some of the Democratic Party’s most prominent members, the “liberal” media has predictably played the tired old “both sides” card with regard to political violence. Somehow promoting the idea that interrupting the dinner of a child gaoler or a Senator who wants to strip Americans of their healthcare is just as bad as attempting to assassinate political rivals with mail bombs. This dangerous, insidious, dishonest, and downright infuriating narrative of course started with our pResident, who equated violent murderous white supremacists with peaceful protesters whose only message was “Racism and genocide is bad, mkay?”

Bothsiderism, and its twin brothers “whataboutism” and “false equivalence”, support the narrative that people who protest Nazis are just as bad as people who are Nazis. It gives Republicans the gall to demand civility (read: submission) from the people whom they call “snowflakes” at least 50 times a day. It encourages the notion that defending yourself or resisting evil is just as bad as perpetrating it.

Let’s be clear:

ONE SIDE sent death threats to the Dixie Chicks, Dr. Ford, the Parkland kids, various news outlets, and anyone else who dared to disagree with their political views.

ONE SIDE blew up a daycare center full of infants with a truck bomb.

ONE SIDE lamented that the above right-wing terrorist didn’t bomb the NYT building instead.

ONE SIDE has shot up black/liberal churches, Sikh temples, abortion clinics, and schools.

ONE SIDE worships guns because they view the 2nd Amendment as a tool to oppress and intimidate, not a tool to defend.

ONE SIDE said “If ballots don’t work, bullets will” and constantly threatened to “water the tree of liberty” because they were butthurt that a black man was president.

ONE SIDE constantly calls for the imprisonment of their political opponents and uses their pictures as target practice.

ONE SIDE has literal Nazis in its ranks.

ONE SIDE marched with tiki torches in Charlottesville calling for ethnic cleansing and drove into a crowd of protesters, killing one.

ONE SIDE placed crosshairs on several Congressmen, one of whom ended up getting shot.

ONE SIDE is working with a hostile foreign nation to subvert our democracy because they would rather side with America’s enemies than with their rival political party, and are wearing T-shirts saying exactly that.

ONE SIDE is sending pipe bombs to prominent political figures whom the current pResident despises.

And that ONE SIDE sure as hell isn’t the Democrats.