“Two stunning political moments in the past 24 hours: Gov. Cox's eloquent appearance just now...and Bernie Sanders's extraordinary statement yesterday.”
Because the moment they say that, the other side stops listening and dismisses them or worse, decide to target them.
Remember, politicians are people that go out in public spaces and speak to people and they themselves are terrified of the same event happening to them.
They want the other side to hear them denounce this unequivocally because otherwise, they become targets.
Why is every politician pretending this dude’s entire platform wasn’t just vitriolic hate?
Because the moment they say that, the other side stops listening and dismisses them or worse, decide to target them.
Remember, politicians are people that go out in public spaces and speak to people and they themselves are terrified of the same event happening to them.
They want the other side to hear them denounce this unequivocally because otherwise, they become targets.
You can both denounce Charlie Kirk and everything he stood for and also denounce political violence.
Both can be valid stances.