Following the At the Pelosi residence, an attackRep. Eric Swalwell of California claimed Monday night, that Republicans are “more comfortable in violence” than they are with voting.
Swalwell stated that the next midterm elections will be about deciding whether a country will decide its future by violence or through voting.Â
Swalwell then suggested that “one side seems more comfortable with violence than they do with voting right now, and that’s on the line in eight days.”
He said, “The remedy to this is unity between Democrats, Republicans, to condemn violence at all times and to condemn those who glorify it.”
In an MSNBC interview, Rep. Swalwell stated that Republicans are more comfortable with ‘violence’ than voting’.
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Hayes claimed that the incident echos “January 6” because Hayes said the suspect dressed up after “American revolutionaries”, who were “under British Tyranny.”Â
Swalwell agreed and went on to suggest that the suspect’s social media is similar to that of prominent Republicans. “Speaking of revolutionary talk, that was Ted Cruz’s claim, that Marjorie Taylor Greene had made, up until January 6. He noted that most Americans have Facebook pages with pictures of their family and their dogs. They also like their favorite sports teams.Â
He said, “This guy had conspiracy ideas about January 6, Covid and other nonsense, which looks exactly like the Facebook pages Ted Cruz, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert.” This is the problem: when they preach violent rhetoric, people such as this guy believe it and carry out the violence.
Swalwell’s record regarding violence has been controversial.Â
California Democrat He compared him to his Republican colleague Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., to the suspect of the Highland Park mass-shooting that left six people dead and dozens wounded, tweeting, “Let’s start drawing straight lines.”
He also threatened gun-rights activists, saying that they would not be able to stand much of an opportunity if the American Government used nuclear weapons against them.Â
Swallwell tweeted “And it’d be a quick war my friend. The government has nukes. They have too many. But they’re legit. I’m sure if we talked we could find common ground to protect our families and communities.”
On Saturday, June 29, 2019, multiple groups including Rose City Antifa and the Proud Boys, as well as conservative activist Haley Adams, protested in downtown Portland, Ore. (Dave Killen/The Oregonian via AP).
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The very existence of left-wing violence, especially that which is organized by groups such as loosely organized Antifa cells, has been an issue that many left-wing figures have denied knowledge of, with then-candidate Joe Biden infamously claiming, “Antifa’s an idea, not an organization,” at a 2020 presidential debate.
An October episode of The View featured Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas., debating The View’s hosts on the existence of left-wing political violence. After Cruz called out the “Antifa riots” from 2020, host Whoopi Goldberg replied “I don’t know what an ‘Antifa riot’ is.”
Twitter users roasted Newsweek after it published a fact-check of the Texas Senator, claiming that “Antifa is not a formalized group or association” and “labeling the protests as ‘Antifa riots’ is misleading too as there is no organization or group known as such,” despite the publication having reported on “Antifa chapters” in the past.
A fire started by a Philadelphia police cruiser on May 30, 2020. The first of six individuals charged with setting fires to Philadelphia police vehicles during the 2020 riots in protest of police brutality in response to the shooting of George Floyd in Minneapolis has been sentenced.
((AP Photo/Matt Rourke, file))
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Liberal figures like Swalwell don’t seem to have confused messaging when condemning Republicans, however.
“It’s very clear that Republicans have recognized that they can no longer win elections with votes, and so they’re leaning in hard to try to win elections with violence, and they are fomenting that violence right now,” Swalwell stated this in an August interview.
