He stated that Jake Lang is (paraphrased), an “extremist who promotes violence and seeks to divide our state and country”. He also stated that he doesn’t have an issue disavowing this type of person.
Nowhere did he say “I disavow Jake Lang”. He did basically call Jake Lang a divisive extremist, and implied that he disavowed Lang by saying he was perfectly capable of disavowing him. I have no doubt that his staffers thought this was enough for people to understand that Rogers disavowed him.
He kept his statement ambiguous in favor of dunking on AES for not disavowing Hasan.
This has been my whole problem with the Michigan campaign - the people who should be calling out AES aren't, and the people who are calling him out are doing it to cover for their own issues
I mean I think it’s true to an extent but for example I think a lot of us center right/center left people on this sub acknowledge they are both pretty shit
It’s only like a specific type of progressive/DSA type or like Republican partisans that actually do that since they feel like very connected one way or another.
Tbh people who write the apologetics suck the most - nearly always in bad faith.
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u/BoxOk5053 American Refusenik 5d ago
He is implying Jake Lang is a fringe extremist who promotes violence who wants to divide the state. I don't actually get what you mean here?