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Congresswoman Elise Stefanik (R-NY) has the “worst luck in American retail politics ever,” declares host Molly Jong-Quick on this episode of The New Irregular.
She’s referring to Stefanik’s previous “substitute principle” rhetoric that resurfaced in a short time after the “screed” of the Tops shooter Payton Gendron had been reported to comprise the identical type of views.
“Folks have died as a result of an 18-year-old used these theories as the idea of his worldview,” provides co-host Andy Levy. “Look, if somebody went out and killed a bunch of individuals due to stuff I’d been saying, I’d wanna run away from the stuff I mentioned too, however that doesn’t change the truth that you mentioned it.”
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It’s not like that rhetoric was far in her previous both. Simply final Friday, she despatched a tweet parroting QAnon conspiracy about Democrats being pedophiles.
“[The shooting] is the results of a tradition the place white nationalism is the mainstream,” says Molly.
Molly additionally will get the lowdown from Democratic strategist Adrienne Elrod on the Pennsylvania candidates working in Tuesday’s election, together with Kathy Barnette, who's “even too Trumpy for Trump.”
Elrod additionally has ideas on Stefanik.
“Bear in mind when she was really type of regular?” she asks Molly.
“I imply that tweet will reside along with her for the remainder of her life. It would reside along with her, it can reside with the Republican celebration, and it’s going to in infamy,” Elrod notes later.
Plus! Shannon Watts, founding father of anti-gun violence group Mothers Demand Motion, explains the loophole that allowed the Tops shooter to get his gun, and the way the NRA is linked to what drove him to kill.
“It’s like an overlapping circle now, proper? The NRA’s agenda, the Republican agenda, the Christian nationalist agenda. And that's that gun extremism is a recruiting device,” she says.
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