While I agree with your points, you raise some good ones, it would have been just easier if Cruz had condemned the violence outright with no qualifiers. Trying to point out thuggish, boorish behavior to thugs and boors is practically impossible.
If one dares question or call it out, the behavior is equated to “manliness”, your own manhood is questioned, and then victory is claimed much like the familiar chess playing pigeon.
This is if such people believe such behavior is defensible. Such as we are seeing from some Trump supporters. For people who don’t care to defend it at all, the behavior is still justified in such a mind as a means to an end. An evil for the greater good. Which is of course the last recourse of the desperate. The desperate who only wish to control and subvert all opposition. Sound familiar? It should.
Who knows. Maybe the country will be unified after all, under this “new” face of “conservatism”: agree or be punched, kicked, and called a girlie-man. Why not, the left has done it this way for years so “we” should too, right?
I understand, but it is a pattern, trump has many times acted like he is a brash bully
he has zero in his life to back it up except a mouth
I am a Marine vet, former bouncer bodyguard, national tae kwon do competitor
if I went around telling all my friends I was going to punch people in the mouth at tea party rallies, what would be said?
the same standard goes for all men
Trump has zero in his history to ever be able to back it up...me? I am so old and broke down, girls can take me now, everything hurts and nothing works...(sigh)