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President Donald Trump speaks to supporters during a rally on October 31, in Montoursville, Pennsylvania. Donald Trump is crossing the crucial state of Pennsylvania in the last few days of campaigning before Americans go to the polls on November 3rd to vote.

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Trump is currently trailing his opponent Joe Biden in most national polls. This article originally appeared here on Salon. After a group of Donald Trump's supporters menaced a Joe Biden campaign bus on a Texas highway, it was completely predictable that Trump would openly encourage such behavior. This isn't surprising, but we should not allow the lack of surprise dull the outrage of this. This is the same man who celebrated the St.

Of course he's all for political violence — as long as he, personally, doesn't have to get his hands dirty. Stop The Violence Do Not Speed Trump supporters accept defeat? If he loses, it could get really ugly. Trump's claim he didn't want "panic" is laughable — he wants it focused on imaginary threats. Salon's Chauncey DeVega published an interview with counterinsurgency expert David Kilcullen on Monday, in which Kilcullen warned that there are right wing groups that are "motivated and mobilized and willing to engage in violence. Trump is amplifying the threat of violence in order to scare people out of taking action to stop him. But there's no need to be afraid. Like their beloved president, who hides behind a phalanx of security to make impotent threats on Twitter from the White House bathroom, most Trump voters like to play at being tough-guy warriors, but have no real interest in actually making good on those threats.

The centrality of the motor vehicle to these Trump-supporter tantrums really illustrates this point. Even when they decide they want to get out there and act macho, most of these Trump goons still hide in their expensive pickups, afraid of direct physical confrontation with the progressives they are trying to menace. The Austin incident is a good example. Even https://amazonia.fiocruz.br/scdp/blog/woman-in-black-character-quotes/the-crime-scene-of-high-school.php violence that broke out at Black Lives Matters protests over the weekend reflected this right-wing cowardice.

Most of the attacks on protesters were from people in cars trying to run demonstrators over. We saw what is likely the worst of it at the Black Lives Matter protests over the summer. The infamous incident in St. Dystopian plagues and fascist politics in the age of Trump: Finding hope in the darkness.

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Folks on the left need to be able to balance two ideas in their head. Instead of letting Trump intimidate them, progressives should get angry — and even more determined. Incoming presidents "typically want to wait until they have the reins of power in order to put their fingerprints on the policies coming out of the door," Jared Bernstein, who served as President-elect Joe Biden's chief economist during the Obama administration, said this week during a virtual conference.

But, he added, Biden would prefer that not be the case when it comes to iVolence relief, which is "something that should happen now.

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Biden's camp Violecne reportedly focused on ensuring Black-owned businesses receive loans they had trouble securing following the first relief bill, getting funding for state and local governments, and extending enhanced unemployment benefits. The latter issue is where Biden "may have to give something up to McConnell that we really don't want to give up to get" a deal, "but we simply have to do this," another person close to the transition team said. Read more at Politico. More stories from theweek. Loeffler is currently campaigning in a Stop The Violence Do Not Speed race that could determine control of the Senate at the start of President-elect Joe Biden's term.

Boris Johnson has been urged to grant asylum to a Pakistani Christian girl who was forced to marry a Muslim man accused of abducting and raping her at gunpoint. The family of the year-old girl Sto that she was kidnapped by Mohamad Nakash last year, who used blackmail and threats of violence to make her sign false papers consenting to marriage. The girl then escaped and is now in hiding.]