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I'll take a now contrarian opinion, and say that the "stand down, stand by" comment was not inciteful. It was him just blurting out phrases he thought fit the moment.
I you think he very carefully chose those words to message something very specific, and that the notion of giving a command was a clever, veiled, strategic communication - I think you're giving him too much credit.
It makes for good copy, and for good clickbait, to claim that he all but offered a "heil" salute to the SS... but I didn't hear/see that, myself.
Now, that he wasn't quick to denounce white supremacy or those groups - I was offended by his evasiveness there. And his tactic of whataboutism to cover up his racist tendencies and followers, I am perpetually offended by that.
But this exact wording, I think it just came out, and hit the ear wrong.
(You can be sure that a comparable mini-blunder by Biden would be assailed similarly by the right)
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