They were going to no matter what because no one is willing to stop them. Now there's one less.

It’s all fun and games until Republicans use this as an excuse to further enforce their fascist agendas.

Republicans are marching National Guard soldiers into the largest cities in America on exaggerated "crime fighting" excuses. They have established an unaccountable militia with ICE hiding their identities and violating the civil rights of American citizens on exaggerated or fabricated drug/violence reasons. They've needed no legitimate excuses to do these things, yet they are actively doing them. This changes nothing on that front.

They'll make up whatever excuses they need either way so it doesn't really make a difference.

They're going to do fascism no matter what! They don't care about truth. They can just make shit up if they need to rile up their supporters.

It'll be interesting to see the contrast with the political response to this assassination compared to the Democratic Minnesota lawmaker that was assassinated a couple months ago

I get the distinct feeling conservatives won't be nearly as silent about this one

Except they haven't needed an excuse to date. I'm sick of this boogyman. Punch back, they haven't been pulling any punches.

It will be like the Iraq war.

Saudi Arabia was responsible, but we're going to attack Iraq instead.

This accelerates it for sure. I think more of what this will do is show us a clear line of liberals becoming fascist as they criticize "leftist violence".

And, to be clear, we have no idea what the motivation of the shooter was. THAT MOTIVATION DOES NOT MATTER. Please do not waste your time arguing with the fascist over this. They already made up their mind on how they would use this for their narrative. They control all media outlets.

Get off the internet and get ready to keep your family and neighbors safe. This was coming. But it's coming faster now. The liberals will only focus on condemning this violence NOT the state violence that is about to follow.