As reported by the BBC in February, former Prime Minister (PM) Liz Truss said it’s time for violence:

…conservatives are now operating in a hostile environment… we essentially need a bigger bazooka in order to be able to deliver…

Truss, the shortest-term PM in the United Kingdom’s (UK) history and the first ex-PM to completely lose any seat in government (due to extreme incompetence), was a featured speaker at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).

Given her outlandish calls for domestic terrorism and civil war, as a literal nobody in America who can still seriously damage the political narrative, now she has been invited as an honored guest to the Republican National Convention (RNC).

‘I don’t know who that is’: What Americans think of Truss at Republican convention

Not knowing who she is makes her big stage speech calling for US violence even more dangerous, as it enters the dialogue with authority yet without real attribution.

Seven in ten UK voters have an unfavourable view of Trump – even more than have an unfavourable view of Truss.

Trump is shamelessly using Truss. And you would think Americans could bounce Trump out of office faster than Truss, given he’s worse. Alas.

Obvious game-playing by the RNC to use a disgraced UK PM to stoke violent hate without attribution recalls dangerous Trump rhetoric that called for assassination of his political opponents.

Trump: If Clinton picks judges, “nothing you can do, folks — although the 2nd Amendment people, maybe there is.” […] Sen. Chris Murphy, D-CT, responded on Twitter: “Don’t treat this as a political misstep. It’s an assassination threat, seriously upping the possibility of a national tragedy & crisis.”

Trump responded to loud criticism of his obviously divisive call for assassination by invoking gaslighting propaganda tactics.

It’s called the power of unification…

By “it” he meant assassination. Trump openly called “it” his theory for unification, nudge, nudge, wink, wink, because he believes that killing his opponent… unifies power into him.

The GOP regular incitements to violence have now adopted this “unity” phrasing along with some of their more obvious incitements.

In Ohio campaign rally, Trump says there will be a “bloodbath” if he loses November election…

How could they so horribly misuse the word “unity” to campaign for violent disunity in America?

First, don’t discount how calls for unity towards preserving slavery were the defining feature of racist Confederacy secession. White men were tortured and lynched, their mutilated bodies strung up in public displays, if they dared to object to American prosperity being based almost entirely on mass human trafficking. Unity was demanded to prop up the systemic government-sanctioned rape of Black women for profit, with even anti-racist speech facing penalty of gruesome public death by mobs.

Second, the modern answer is the GOP have shifted their messaging hard towards a well-known reverse meaning used by current domestic terrorists, an encoded white supremacist signal related to extremist “replacement” racist conspiracies.

White Supremacist Propaganda Incidents Soar to Record High in 2023… common slogans include “White unity”…

Notably, at public rallies they leave the “white” part out like they leave their white hoods off.

Unity has been a theme of the Republican convention this week in Milwaukee…

Thus unification through hate, and especially violent hate, is a very old theme in American politics.

“[The organized terror movement after Civil War] stock-in-trade was violence – intimidation and violence. People were beaten, people were flogged, people were lynched, people were shot. People’s homes were raided, they were dragged outdoors and flogged in the streets.” And, he says, the violence often included “truly horrifying sadism”.

What they mean is this:

…a former Ku Klux Klan leader and a current U.S. Senate candidate from Louisiana — encouraged listeners to cast their ballots for Trump, saying that “voting against Donald Trump at this point is really treason to your heritage.”

Treason. Meaning you will be put to death if you vote against white power, literally the same threats that were made after the Civil War to stop American Blacks from voting at all.

Colby: On the 29th of October 1869, [the KKK] broke my door open, took me out of bed, took me to the woods and whipped me three hours or more and left me for dead. They said to me, “Do you think you will ever vote another damned Radical ticket?” I said, “If there was an election tomorrow, I would vote the Radical ticket.” They set in and whipped me a thousand licks more, with sticks and straps that had buckles on the ends of them.

The brand of bazooka-driven (assassination, bloodbath) “unity” the GOP is talking about is simply white supremacist violence, an 1800s-themed war to put white men into power and remove everyone else.