We didn’t know much about the man who shot up a high-rise office building in midtown Manhattan Monday night, but NewsNation’s Chris Cuomo thought that he knew the reason why it happened. According to him, the source of blame was the culture perpetuated on social media where “political extremism” was reinforced with the perverse idea that the ends justified the means whether it be political or personal.
“We are under siege from political extremism,” Cuomo proclaimed near the top of the show. “Maybe he was mentally ill, maybe he wasn't; either way, the overwhelming probability is that he was somehow influenced by some kind of fundamentalist and then extremist activity off of that fundamentalist belief.”
Cuomo wanted people realize that the temperature of American discourse was too high and that it wasn’t something that always existed, and that social media was to blame. He also warned that people were too easily weaponized.
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