Donald trump!!

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Just nearly got assasinated!!!

Hes been president before and no world war 3 happened..closer to it under biden rather 🙄

Their leader was evidently Trump. Around 2,500 people stormed Capitol Hill including right wing militia groups, while thousands of others gathered nearby. It was described as a riot. Trump was accused of inciting an insurrection.

You're describing it as a few dozen people on a day out.

I disagree. His extremist cult, who adore him, will of course vote for him. But more and more moderate voters realize exactly what he is, because he does not even try to hide it. And I sincerely hope all of those people vote. If they do, he doesn’t stand a chance.

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You realise antifa is short for anti fascist. So you're pro fascist.

No, antifa don't get to lay claim to anti-facism, as much as they might like to. If I think they're a bunch of objectionionable little twerps for protesting against, threatening and assaulting gender critical women, for instance, that doesn't make me a fascist, it makes me rational.

I'm not so sure, the fastest growing terror threat in the UK is far-right extremism. Jo Cox was murdered by somebody from the radicalised right. We've had a section of the Tory party, and Farage, undermining our courts and our judiciary, not dissimilar to the Maga campaign. We need to be careful in assuming it won't happen here.

So you don't actually have any evidence that "he is a democrat really"?

He released a statement late last night condemning the shooting.

It wasn't a section of the Tory Party undermining the courts, it was most of the Tory government over many years starting with Boris Johnson, cheerleaded by the press. It coukd easily happen here. Our system is too dependent on the assumption that people will follow conventions.

Sorry if it's already been mentioned but the shooter seems to have been a gun nut. I wouldn't be surprised if he just wanted to kill people - if it hadn't been Trump, it might have been schoolkids.

There we are then.

Certainly is. He knew he would pay for this with his life, or at the very least with his liberty, so it’s also possible he was suicidal and wanted to be remembered for something before he committed suicide by cop.

So why are you making the claim that "he's a democrat really" when you seem to acknowledge that we don't actually know? Do you not see any problem with making unsubstantiated statements like this?

Political Horseshoe Theory

In popular discourse, the horseshoe theory asserts that advocates of the far-left and the far-right, rather than being at opposite and opposing ends of a linear continuum of the political spectrum, closely resemble each other, analogous to the way that the opposite ends of a horseshoe are close together.[1

Somebody behind him, was.

Can we stop minimising political violence?

It matters little the flavour of the politician. Its wrong whoever does it.

I agree.

Also Conservative MP Sir David Amess died after being stabbed multiple times at his constituency surgery in Essex in 2021.

As much as I dislike Nigel Farage he has had things thrown in his face by the public. It could easily have been acid or worse.

It is very naive to think a similar attack can't happen in the UK unfortunately. As our politics gets more and more divisive, the likelihood increases.

I agree. I detest Trump and everything he represents, but that's irrelevant. All political violence is abhorrent, regardless of how objectionable we might find the target to be.

Any MPs been murdered since then? Was that by far right too?

The Rest is Politics are about to do an "Emergency Pod" live on You Tube in the next few minutes on last night's events.