There’s a meme that floats around the X-Twitters about how so much of being a progressive is pretending that you don’t know what things mean. Exhibit Q is Jasmine Crockett claiming that Democrats don’t call for violence against political opponents and have never called for violence. Jazzy, for someone who barely exists off of social media, also apparently doesn’t know how the internets work. The GOP had no problem answering her challenge with twenty examples.
Or, it depends on how you define “call to violence.” If we are using the “independent” “fact” checker standard, because it’s the GOP and no Democrat said the actual words “I call you to commit violence” verbatim and in that order, an argument could be made that none of these examples are a call to violence.
Even though the people making that argument are the same people who called for Sarah Palin to be held as an accessory to murder for using a commonly used crosshairs graphic to illustrate how congressional seats were being targeted. A graphic so commonly used, Democrats were using the same graphic for the same reason in the same election cycle.