Expert warns Democrats risk backlash over failure to condemn violent rhetoric in their ranks
With less than two weeks before critical elections across the country, Democrats have tough questions to grapple with about their messaging and whether they can navigate the growing movement in...
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With less than two weeks before critical elections across the country, Democrats have tough questions to grapple with about their messaging and whether they can navigate the growing movement in their party that is embracing or downplaying political violence, attorney and political commentator Kaitlin Puccio told Fox News Digital. " We do hear a lot of just the Democrats are against Trump, but we don't hear a lot of what they're actually for, which is problematic. And it kind of seems to me like they don't really have a cohesive message," Puccio, adjunct professor at Fordham Law and the director of the Art and Bioethics Initiative of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics and Human Rights, said in an interview with Fox News Digital. Puccio said the ‘No Kings’ protests last week, where several examples of promoting violence went viral on social media, show a "fracture" in the Democratic Party that mainstream elected officials will have to contend with. Additionally, messaging at those rallies lacked substance, Puccio explained. CHICAGO SCHOOLS SILENT ON PUNISHMENT OR PUBLIC CONDEMNATION OF TEACHER WHO MOCKED CHARLIE KIRK'S DEATH " It's mostly, ‘We are against Trump.’ OK, but, specifically, what are you against? What is the specific policy that you are against?" Puccio said. "'No Kings’: great. But we don't have a king. We all know that. We're not supposed to take this phrase literally, but what about the policies that are in place right now do you think are authoritarian? And what do you want instead? So, we're hearing a lot of slogans and phrases and kind of catchphrases. And really that leaves the message without substance." Questions about Democrats' support for political violence have been front and center in recent weeks after Virginia Democratic attorney general candidate Jay Jones was outed for past texts fantasizing about killing a Republican colleague and wishing death on that colleague’s children. " I don't think that it's lost on voters that there are these horribl…