Comments blaming Biden and the left for the shooting could lay the groundwork for crackdowns on critics of the right.
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Well well well. If it isn’t projection. Hey let’s accuse the other camp of what we’ve been doing all along.

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Didn’t you know? That’s what GOP stands for: Gaslighting, Obstructionism, Projection.

“The radical left will stop at NOTHING, going so far as to try and assassinate their political opponents,” wrote Florida Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna in a now-deleted post on X at 6:49pm — again, at a time when virtually nothing was known about the shooting.

I’d love to know if she deleted it before or after it was revealed he was registered as a Republican

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Most likely answer is that Republicans will completely ignore that inconvenient information and if it is ever brought up to them directly label the shooter a RINO and dismiss it.

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Reichstag fire moment.

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