When you look at this guy, and you look at his web sites and videos, I don't see how he was galvanized by the political rhetoric from one side or the other.
The guy was motivated by his own anti government stance, not what the tea party was saying. The guy was motivated by his own twisted sense of self worth and logic and not what the democrats and republicans were saying.
This assassination attempt was born out of his own anti government stance, and his feelings that the victim was a politician and not on the stances of the parties or their speeches.
And while its nice to lump white supremacist rants and murder threats and people who are on the rather extreme sides of fringe groups, those people are inflamed no matter what. If the Democrats, Republicans and Tea Partiers all sat around holding hands and singing we will overcome, these people would still be enraged and angry.
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