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 ) have used endless rhetoric of hate, violence and ultimately un-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 rife 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 as well as 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 simply because the napalm failed to ignite.
He went on to say, “Next, a mob in Seattle tried to block the doors of the building where the police were located and set fire to the building in an attempt to burn the officers.” “In all, more than seven hundred federal, state and local law enforcement officers were injured in violence by leftist thugs, including retired St. Louis Police Captain David Dorn, who was killed while defending his beloved city, which (violence) was encouraged by Democrat 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 as an incentive for people to commit acts of violence. At the same Time, he said it would be hypocritical to impeach Trump by accusing him of 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 when rioters burned cities and attacked federal law enforcement officers after the death of George Floyd last summer, some Democrats across the United States cheered.
“Many Democrats in Washington (at the time) did make extremely 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’ efforts to impeach him.
During the “Black Lives Matter” protests, Democratic Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-N.Y.) has publicly called for “street unrest.”
She said in an interview on MSNBC’s “AM Joy” that “call, email and show up,” and that “as long as there’s 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 in politics? The answer can be found in the exit data from the 2020 election: it turns out we’ve left (the Democratic Party) and joined the new populist Republican Party.”
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