The Biden campaign was quick to condemn the video for suggesting physical harm to the sitting Democratic president. Biden has portrayed his likely 2024 opponent as someone who freely evokes Nazi imagery with regard to immigrants, while also stressing in speeches that Trump’s efforts to overturn his loss in the 2020 elections ultimately led to an assault on the U.S. Capitol.
“Trump is regularly inciting political violence and it’s time people take him seriously — just ask the Capitol police officers who were attacked protecting our democracy on January 6,” said Michael Tyler, the Biden campaign’s communications director.
I normally agree with you but in this case I don't think we can ignore sharing such imagery. Yes, hold the producers accountable. Also hold those accountable who are popularizing it.
When Trump promotes this imagery, it is explicitly to incite somebody in his Cadre of cultish followers to act on it. All it takes is just one to act on it. It's textbook stochastic terrorism.
I think they're both deserving of blame - the producers deserve the lion's share but Trump is amplifying the message. In the pretrump world a politician would get a load of shit for misusing their platform like that.
A famously not illegal form of protected speech (it should be illegal but it isn't)... which doesn't fit this scenario since the violence is very clearly targeted at Biden and not at all vague.