Let’s shed an ocean of tears for the special snowflakes running the day-to-day affairs of Louisiana Democrats, seemingly sent into paroxysms of terror by a single word appearing on their headquarters’ easement that, in fact in another context, contains commentary rather than threat.
Recently in Baton Rouge on the city easement leading from the street to the back parking lot of the state party headquarters appeared, within 48 hours of the assassination of conservative political commentator Charlie Kirk, a spray-painted scrawled “MURDERERS.” Possibly somebody aggrieved with Kirk’s murders may have done this, motivated by connecting the relentless drumbeat for years of Democrats and leftists calling Republicans and conservatives vile names and casting highly negative aspersions about their motives over policy disagreements, or perhaps because tens of thousands of leftists on social and other media had gloated over the event, or both (although one social media commenter raised the possibility that this was a self-inflicted feint, perhaps designed to draw attention away from leftist culpability for Kirk’s killing and to generate sympathy for the left, at least in Louisiana).
Regardless of motivations for the graffiti, the state party administrators decided it only could mean open season on party operatives. It filed a police report and announced staffers would work outside of the headquarters for a while and that they would take measures to see that they were “safe.”
Of course, it’s not like a local Republican headquarters in Virginia that had spray painted words left on its front door and window and American flag desecrated, nor the New Mexico GOP headquarters decorated with pejorative graffiti and torched, nor the New York state GOP headquarters adorned with swastikas and taunting signage (twice). Or the same for a local GOP headquarters in Wisconsin. Or shattering a window at a local GOP headquarters in Alabama. Or derogatory graffiti at a local GOP party headquarters in Iowa. And more, all in the last year and all far more damaging, vituperative, and threatening than the Baton Rouge incident of an accusatory appellation written on public property some distance from the headquarters building.
As well, a stunt like this (if as a response to the Kirk assassination) accomplishes nothing. No minds will be changed and it’s a waste of effort that only draws rancor when the purpose should be to persuade your opponents. But as a larger comment on a specific policy preference of Louisiana Democrats and those nationwide, the word not only makes some sense, but even accurately describes that policy preference.
Because Democrats are the party of abortion on demand. Louisiana Democrats go right along with that by their approval of their party’s national platform at last year’s convention and from statements made by the state party from time to time. And abortion, when the mother’s life isn’t demonstrably at risk, is murder, even if legally sanctioned in some places and for some purposes, but it’s still the taking of a (preborn) human life just the same.
The far left that has taken over the party will resort to a number of euphemisms to deflect from this truth, such as by calling abortion on demand “reproductive rights” (and not for women but for “pregnant people”), but it does not change the fact. You can make the argument that stumping for policy that permits abortion, regardless of where, makes you an indirect and knowing accomplice in the subsequent killing of the unborn for no justifiable reason, just as certain individuals in Europe in the 1930s and 1940s vandalized the property of and cooperated in discrimination of (and even violence against) Jews (and, in lesser amounts, the religious, homosexuals, and other nationalities) that would lead to the gas chamber.
Viewed in that way, the “MURDERERS” graffiti isn’t really a threat but an accusation, congruent with a comment made by Democrat New York Gov. Kathy Hochul after the swastika vandalism of the New York GOP headquarters: “This is unacceptable. No one should ever resort to violence or vandalism to make a political point” (emphasis added) – in other words, she supports the idea that if somebody feels so compelled they should make the political point that equates Republicans with National Socialist ideology, just not through vandalism or violence.
Thusly so with the Baton Rouge incident (which in any event only very indirectly could be called vandalism against Democrats since the headquarters’ property wasn’t disturbed, but it definitively would be vandalism against public property). The placement of the word, whether it describes the toxic rhetoric Democrats have engaged in over the past decade that may have encouraged the death of Kirk and/or as commentary on Democrats’ affinity for abortion now/abortion tomorrow/abortion forever, was in its delivery unwise and that act to be condemned, but is matched in its overwrought nature by state Democrats’ response to it that seems equally an instrument of political commentary.
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