This is the leader of a national party.
Where are the republicans to condemn this violence?
#6 | Posted by truthhurts

Republican politiicans will not condemn this, because for them this is campaign strategy about the Senate and the Supreme Court, stupid:

On September 10, Vance told his people to "keep the cat memes flowing," even though--or perhaps because--the rumors were putting people in his own state in danger.

Trump repeated the lie at the presidential debate that night, claiming, "In Springfield, they're eating the dogs, the people that came in, they're eating the cats. They're eating, they're eating the pets of the people that live there."

. . .The widespread ridicule of Trump's statement has obscured that this attack on Ohio's immigrants is part of an attempt to regain control of the Senate. Convincing Ohio voters that the immigrants in their midst are subhuman could help Republicans defeat popular Democratic incumbent senator Sherrod Brown, who has held his seat since 2007. Brown and Montana's Jon Tester, both Democrats in states that supported Trump in 2020, are key to controlling the Senate.

Two Republican super PACs, one of which is linked to Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), have booked more than $82 million of ad space in Ohio between Labor Day and the election and are focusing on immigration.

Taking control of the Senate would enable Republicans not only to block all popular Democratic legislation, as they did with gun reform after the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre, but to continue to establish control of America's judicial system. So long as their judges are in place to make law from the bench, what the majority of Americans want doesn't matter.

*the Republican party to maintain power

Why is it so important to Republicans to control the Senate? Heather Cox Richardson continues:

Controlling the country through the courts was the plan behind stacking the courts with Republican nominees and weaponizing the filibuster to stop Democrats from passing legislation. In March 2024, in Slate, legal analyst Mark Joseph Stern noted that McConnell "realized you don't need to win elections to enact Republican policy. You don't need to change hearts and minds. You don't need to push ballot initiatives or win over the views of the people. All you have to do is stack the courts. You only need 51 votes in the Senate to stack the courts with far-right partisan activists ... [a]nd they will enact Republican policies under the guise of judicial review, policies that could never pass through the democratic process. And those policies will be bulletproof, because they will be called law.'"

So, yeah, maybe some Republican politicians, espeically on a local level, are afraid of bomb threats, but I really don't think that is what is motivating the JD Vances and Ted Cruzes of the world. The ends justify the means, so stoking and using racism to achieve your political ends is well worth the cost someone else will have to pay.

IOW, using racism to obtain your political ends is not a bug but a feaure in the Republican party. Interstingly, the far-right's racism playbook is not unique to the US:

From 30 July to 5 August 2024, far-right, anti-immigration protests and riots occurred in England and Northern Ireland, within the United Kingdom. This followed a mass stabbing in Southport on 29 July in which three children were killed. The riots were fuelled by false claims circulated by far-right groups that the perpetrator of the attack was a Muslim and an asylum seeker, in addition to broader Islamophobic, racist, and anti-immigrant sentiments that had grown leading up to the protests. The disorder included racist attacks, arson, and looting and was the largest incident of social unrest in England since 2011.

Following the stabbing, there was incorrect speculation online about the name of the suspected attacker. Misinformation and disinformation, including false claims about the suspect's identity, nationality, religion and immigration status, were circulated on social media by high-profile far-right accounts. . . The false claim that the perpetrator was named "Ali Al-Shakati" is believed to have originated from the X (formerly Twitter) account of an anti-lockdown campaigner and gained a greater audience when repeated by the website Channel3Now, a website known for spreading fake news. Russia was accused of being behind a deliberate disinformation campaign, and as of 5 August, the National Crime Agency and Department for Science, Innovation and Technology are investigating such claims.