The media only cared about blaming ‘both sides’ for violence when it was a Democrat’s fault

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It’s funny how when a Democrat explicitly motivated by partisan politics shoots up a baseball field, everyone is supposed to take responsibility because “both sides” are to blame. But when a lunatic with no party affiliation, and who hates President Trump, allegedly sprays bullets in a synagogue, well, Republicans have a lot to answer for.

Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson wrote Monday in response to the synagogue massacre, “‘Both sides’ are not responsible for the horrific political terrorism we have seen this past week” because “only the right is to blame — starting with President Trump and his complicit enablers in the Republican Party.”

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