Salon Magazine has a plece up about how MAGA politicians, pundits, social media influencers, and even MAGA billionares like Elon Musk are blaming female Secret Service agents for the assassination attempt on Donald Trump.
Since they can't blame the shooter because he's a registered Republican, they choose the women of the Secret Service to be the scapegoat.
The propagation of this narrative represents "a very clear effort to divert attention" from media reports that the shooter was a white man and registered with the Republican Party, according to Jennifer Saul, a University of Waterloo professor of philosophy whose research focuses on political language, including racist, sexist and deceptive speech.
"It's not useful to the Republicans to blame somebody like that. That's not politically helpful for them,...In fact, it's politically damaging for them. So there's, I think, a very clever effort to divert attention onto something that is a more useful object of blame."
Of course, it all falls in line with their assault on DEI:
Right wingers have "spent quite some time already building up DEI as an immense force for evil and incompetence in the world, so there's a lot of negative associations and emotions that come with the use of the term DEI, which is very helpful for them," Saul added, explaining that the animus around "DEI" casts it as "an object of hostility" and its usage gets others' "emotions and anger going."
When MAGA also blames the assassination attempt on DEI, we all know that it's not just women they're attacking, but minorities and LGBTQ as well.
In an appearance on Fox News, Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., put the blame for the shooting squarely on Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, dubbing her a "DEI initiative person...this is what happens when you don’t put the best players in."
and this from one of the most disgusting human beings alive:
“This DEI agenda and the destruction of meritocracy is affecting the competence levels of these agencies,” former Trump-era attorney general Bill Barr also told Fox host Jesse Watters.
and from an equally disgusting person:
"We support women — of course, we do," Fox News host Laura Ingraham told "The Five" co-host Jeanine Pirro... "But when it comes to shielding the body of someone who is six-foot-three — shielding him, you can’t do it if you’re five-five."
It goes on. Elon Musk, Libs of tiktok, Dinesh D'Souza, viral images and videos getting millions of views and likes.
These are twisted, hate filled lying sociopaths who have millions of followers. MAGA women will be ok with this trashing of their sex, for MAGA men misogyny is in their DNA, and they'll be quite happy and relieved that the attempt on Trump's life wasn't the fault of a registered Republican.