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You are right that wishing death on a political opponent’s children is reprehensible. Jay Jones should apologize directly to the people he targeted, and if Virginians decide that disqualifies him, so be it.
But let’s finish the sentence you started.
- If violent rhetoric is disqualifying, then it applies to everyone, including the GOP candidates and staffers caught praising Hitler, sharing lynching memes, or joking about shooting migrants at the border.
- If “political pain” talk is over the line, then so are calls from Republican officials to “hang traitors,” “hunt journalists,” or “deal with Democrats the military way,” all of which are easily found on camera or on X from elected Republicans in the last six months.
- And if you are serious about rejecting political violence, then you should say plainly that threatening any family, left or right, is not strategy, it is cowardice.
Condemning violence only when it poll-tests well is not moral clarity. It is branding.
So let’s set one standard, publicly, and live by it:
If you call for blood to win an argument, you do not deserve power.
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