Democrats are currently beside themselves about immigrants (not) eating people’s pets. More seriously, however, they have been quick to blame GOP rhetoric for threats of violence against immigrant communities.
When the town at the center of the controversy received several bomb threats earlier this week, these certain liberals knew exactly where to look for blame. And, of course, it wasn’t at the people actually making the bomb threats.
Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) admitted that he “[didn’t] know about that specific situation,” but went on to opine, “This wouldn’t be the first time that a right-wing leader like Donald Trump has gotten people scared of a certain ethnic group or certain people and pushed them to do something like this.”
His colleague, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), also didn’t know much about what was actually happening, but she similarly knew whom to blame: “When it comes to this specific incident, we’ll have to wait on the details and what gets confirmed, but we do know that this is a pattern that Republican and extreme right-wing organizations have used.”
Give them both credit. At least they admitted they had no idea what the hell they were talking about. They probably should have held their tongues as a........