The New York Times says the Republican Party ‘allows political violence’ and downplays left-wing attacks

The New York Times editorial board appeared to suggest in a lengthy op-ed on Saturday that political violence was a problem coming primarily from the Republican Party.

Citing a report by Democratic staff members of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, the Times editorial board concluded that “white supremacist and extremist anti-government individuals and groups” in the Republican Party constitute the most great threat to the nation.

“While there have been recent episodes of violent left-wing extremism, in recent years political violence has come primarily from the right,” writes the editor.

Although the article briefly refers to the assassination attempt on Judge Brett Kavanaugh over the summer, the editorial board ignored a majority of examples of left-wing political violence such as attacks on pregnancy or the Black Lives Matter/Antifa riots in 2020.

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Instead, the NYT argued that the Democratic Party’s sole responsibility for the escalating violence was efforts to bankroll “far-right candidates in the primaries in hopes of beating them in the general election,” while that the Republicans are primarily to blame.

“The blame lies with Republicans. While voters have rejected some of the most extreme candidates this month, the party is still under the spell of Mr. Trump and his brand of high-handedness. Two leading Republicans who have outspoken about right-wing extremism and baseless lies, Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, have been ousted from office. Meanwhile, the spread of conspiracy theories that once inspired violence continues unabated from from conservative politicians and media,” they wrote.

The article also pointed to the reinstatement of former President Trump’s Twitter account as a threat to increased violence by encouraging more “emotionally charged communications”.

The New York Times made no reference to Antifa in its warning about the Republican Party which primarily fuels political violence.
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“Mr. Trump’s reinstatement on Twitter does not just mean a further proliferation of ‘degrading and dehumanizing speech,’ as warned Brian L. Ott, author of ‘The Presidency of Twitter: Donald J. Trump and the Politics of white rage’, in these pages a few days ago, but also a greater likelihood of violence. As Ott explains: “Social media in general and Twitter in particular lend themselves to simple, urgent communication , thoughtless and emotionally charged. When the message is one of intolerance and violence, the outcome is almost certain,” they wrote.

New York Times columnists and reporters have a habit of downplaying left-wing violence. In 2021, a story insisted that the belief that Black Lives Matter protests caused violence was primarily caused by “misinformation” and “conspiracy theories”.

The New York Times played down the damage caused by the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020.
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The New York Times continued to ignore attacks from the left, mourning future political discourse “if violence from the right begets violence from the left.”

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They concluded, “Political disagreement need not include the threat of violence. Americans and their political leaders have the ability to choose a different future.”