A former CIA official said he left the Democratic Party because of the impeachment against former President Donald Trump (R-Texas). He said impeachment would only exacerbate political divisions.
Writing on the Daily Caller website, former intelligence official Bryan Dean Wright said, “For years, Democrats like me have watched with increasing alarm as our own political leaders and activists …… (who) use endless hatred, violence and rhetoric that is ultimately not truly American (un-American, not characterized by or consistent with American customs, principles and traditions), causing billions of dollars in economic damage and spawning nationalist movements of a violent nature.
Wright added that the “modern left” is filled with “systemic hatred” that “has fueled deep political divisions and the predictable consequences that come with them, especially violence and destruction.
He added, “The most egregious example occurred in the summer of 2020, when leftist race riots caused as much as $2 billion in damage. He said Democratic leaders have not offered condemnation when property has been damaged and lives destroyed.
Wright asserted that elected officials incited violence last year, adding that during the riots, “a woman in New York City threw a Molotov cocktail (meaning a small incendiary bomb) at four police officers sitting in their car during the riots. He said the officers “were not harmed, only because the napalm failed to ignite.
Next, a mob in Seattle tried to barricade the door of the building where the police were and set fire to the building in an attempt to burn the officers,” he continued. “In all, more than seven hundred federal, state and local law enforcement officers were injured in the violence of the leftist mob, including retired St. Louis police captain David Dorn, who was killed defending his beloved city in a (violence) encouraged by Democratic agitators.
Wright also criticized statements by mainstream media pundits, including one who said that “looting is a powerful tool for achieving the goal of real and lasting social change.
He argued that such statements serve to encourage people to commit acts of violence. At the same Time, he said it would be hypocritical to impeach Trump by accusing him of allegedly inciting rebellion.
House Democrats argued that Trump’s Jan. 6 speech was inciting supporters to storm the Capitol.
Bruce Castor, Trump’s lead impeachment defense attorney, said he noted that some Democrats across the United States cheered when rioters burned cities and attacked federal law enforcement officers after George Floyd’s death last summer.
Many Democrats in Washington (at the time) did make highly inflammatory statements,” he said. “But here, when the president of the United States makes a speech and says, ‘You should peacefully let the people of Congress know what you think,’ he suddenly turns into a villain. So you better be careful when you make a wish.
In the Jan. 6 speech, Trump told his supporters, “I know that everyone here will soon be walking to the Capitol to make their voices heard in a peaceful, patriotic way. This speech by Trump later became the focus of Democrats’ impeachment against him.
During the “Black Lives Matter” protests, Democratic Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-CA) has publicly called for just “street unrest.
She said in an interview on MSNBC’s “AM Joy,” “Call, email, and show up,” and that “as long as there is unrest [in our lives], there needs to be unrest in the streets. Unfortunately, there’s a lot of that (unrest) around.
“For Democrats like me, we have no choice: We have to leave. Wright wrote in the Daily Caller article.
On where he goes, he said, “Where do we go politically? The answer can be found in the exit data from the 2020 election: it turns out we have left (the Democratic Party) and joined the new populist Republican Party.
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