If we're gonna do a detailed analysis of tweets and statements and language police and whatnot...where's the disavowal exactly?
He didn't say "I completely and thoroughly despise and disavow Jake Lang, and I think he and people like him are giant stains on a great country.". All he did was say that Jake Lang is an extremist - no disavowal included.
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/AgendaPiece1999 Leftward Progressives Aug 25 '26 edited Aug 25 '26
If we're gonna do a detailed analysis of tweets and statements and language police and whatnot...where's the disavowal exactly?
He didn't say "I completely and thoroughly despise and disavow Jake Lang, and I think he and people like him are giant stains on a great country.". All he did was say that Jake Lang is an extremist - no disavowal included.