Critics are calling out Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) for demanding that “the left” tone down its rhetoric while taking little responsibility for the inflammatory comments from both himself and his running mate, Donald Trump.
Speaking after another attempt on Trump’s life, Vance called for a “reduction in the ridiculous and inflammatory political rhetoric.”
“We cannot tell the American people that one candidate is a fascist and if he’s elected it is gonna be the end of American democracy,” he insisted.
Yet Trump has used that exact word ― “fascist” ― to describe Vice President Kamala Harris and also claimed she would be the end of the nation.
Trump has also called her a “radical left lunatic,” “Marxist” and a “communist,” among other things. He’s claimed that Harris is trying to “destroy” the country, and told supporters that if Harris wins “you’re not gonna have a country anymore.”
Trump has also repeatedly called Democrats “enemies of the people,” while both Trump and Vance have made false and inflammatory claims of immigrants stealing and eating pets in Springfield, Ohio.
That’s led to bomb threats against schools and evacuations in the community.
Yet Vance ― who last month said Harris can “go to hell” ― rejected the notion that there’s any degree of shared blame on “both sides.”
“I’m not going to say that conservatives always get things exactly right,” he said. “But you know the big difference between conservatives and liberals is that no one has tried to kill Kamala Harris in the last couple of months, and two people now have tried to kill Donald Trump in the last couple of months. I’d say that’s pretty strong evidence that the left needs to tone down the rhetoric and needs to cut this crap out.”
Critics slammed Vance for his one-sided call to tone down the rhetoric ― and for failing to mention Trump’s own inflammatory claims and comments:
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