Dennis Prager argues that political leaders' responses to violence matter more than the violence itself. He claims right-wing politicians condemned the January 6 Capitol attack while Democratic officials in Portland, Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago ignored or praised months of left-wing violence. A movement's legitimacy, he says, depends on whether it condemns its own violent actions.
Far more important than the, the events of the day is the reactions. While Democrats either praised or ignored months of violence on the left, every right-wing politician condemned what happened within a day of January 6th. Severely condemned. That is how you judge a movement. Does it condemn its own? In Portland and LA and New York, Chicago, all these Democrat mayors and governors said nothing, nothing. Prosecuted virtually no one. That's, to me, a way to judge what happened. Was anybody actually hurt other than one protester whom they don't even reveal? She was murdered. She was murdered. I used the term We— they won't even give us the, the name of the officer who did it, because if you kill somebody on the right, that's different than killing somebody on the left. For the left, it's not the race. They use race. They use race. It's your values. You're a right-wing and you're murdered. Big deal.
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