Writing for the Washington Post (and reprinted here in the Salt Lake Tribune)conservative commentator Jennifer Rubin expresses what every American possessed of any decency or moral clarity should realize, now that the the murderous effects of Donald Trump’s deliberate, hate-filled, anti-immigrant rhetoric have once again inspired a mass killing of innocent Americans, this time in El Paso, Texas. As Rubin observes, there is really no longer any doubt where the blame for these killings lies.
For decades now, Republicans have insisted mass murders with semiautomatic weapons are not reflective of a gun problem. I can no longer comprehend how such a ludicrous assertion is remotely acceptable. But in one sense they are right: It’s not merely Republicans’ indulgence of the National Rifle Association that puts Americans’ lives in jeopardy. It is the support and enabling of a president that inspires white nationalist terrorists – and even denies white nationalism is a problem.
Republicans in the United States Congress who claim to have any self-respect or moral conscience (assuming there are any remaining) really ought to pay attention to what she is saying—that their party, by its slavish acquiescence to Trump’s racism for purposes of political opportunism, shares with him the responsibility for these deaths.
View the complete August 5 article from Daily Kos on the AlterNet website here.