Apparently Esquire finds this ad somewhat troubling.
Dana Loesch is the national spokeswoman for the National Rifle Association. She's also a rightwing radio host, a conservative celebrity, and an occasional guest on CNN, which charmingly believes that giving people like Dana Loesch (and Jeffrey Lord, and Corey Lewandowski) some run on television will immunize it from the unmoored wrath of the vulgar taking yam in the White House. (How's that strategy been working for you, Jeff?) Dana Loesch also is very close to sounding like an out-and-out fascist who works for people like Wayne LaPierre, who behaves like one.
They use their media to assassinate real news. They use their schools to teach children that their president is another Hitler. They use their movie stars and singers and award shows to repeat their narrative over and over again. And then they use their ex-president to endorse the resistance. All to make them march, make them protest, make them scream racism and sexism and xenophobia and homophobia and smash windows, burn cars, shut down interstates and airports, bully and terrorize the law abiding — until the only option left is for police to do their jobs and stop the madness. And when that happens, they'll use it as an excuse for their outrage. The only way we stop this, the only way we save our country and our freedom is to fight this violence of lies with the clenched fist of truth.
At the same gathering at which they unveiled this vide?o, LaPierre, bats flying out of either ear, upped the ante.
"It's up to us to speak up against the three most dangerous voices in America: academic elites, political elites, and media elites. These are America's greatest domestic threats."?
Look, free speech and all that. If Loesch and her unhinged boss want to sound like the Khmer Rouge, or like Franco, in front of the whole nation for the purposes of selling more weaponry, well, that's a sad fact of life here in the United States of America.
So their argument is what? People who oppose Trump are it’s “greatest domestic threat?” I think it could be easily argued that greatest threat is Trump himself.
Here’s a little more of Loesch and her self-pity party with fTucker Carlson.
Here’s the thing, when you falsely accuse people of making fake accusations of racism — you help, enable and support RACISM. When you sit there in denial of the enormous rise in hate crimes all around the nation against immigrants and minorities you help enable those crimes.
Via AOL News.
261.
That's the number of hate incidentsThinkProgress has tracked since Nov. 9, 2016, when Donald Trump was declared president-elect. Of the 261 incidents, 109 — or 42% – "included specific references to Trump, his election, or his policies."
Now, the number does seem notably smaller than Southern Poverty Law Center's 867 reported post-election hate crime incidents. ThinkProgress' tracker only included acts of hate violence toward individuals and communities rather than public and private places — like vandalized mosques or spray-painted churches. The incidents listed in ThinkProgress' database also only included incidents that were backed up with news coverage, police reports or through the publication's own investigation into the incident.
The results of the Philando Castile, Freddie Gray and Sam DuBose trials may also be reasons to Resist. Loesch would like to talk about “Violence” from a few isolated protest that have gone off the rails, while most of them haven’t, and claim this is a systematic attempt to destabilize our Democracy. I think it can be argued that the existing power structure, particular when pushed by (only slightly) stealth elements of White Supremacy are a clear and present danger to the implementation of Justice.
White Supremacy is Terrorism.
And people need to be vocal, they need to fight back with their words, their ability to stand up, and ultimately to vote — against it.