Climate Progress Requires Uniting Against Political Violence and Conspiracy Thinking
“As the good folks at Political Research Associates reminded us after the shooting and before Trump would model his new square ear gauze to more distracting cries of fakery: What the moment calls for is vigilance—’vigilance against inevitable disinformation, potential retaliatory violence, and rising government repression of peaceful protest and dissent.’”
“But as the PRA further wrote the day after Trump’s shooting: ‘Violence and fear must not be allowed to deter the people from the fullest exercise of their rights and their agency in determining how they will govern and be governed.’”