You'd think the Republicans Congresscritters would be getting tired of the death threats they receive. Don Bacon mentioned several months ago he sleeps with a gun next to his bed. But these Congresscritters leave their partners and children at home alone and that has to weigh on them when they are in Washington.
Would that not be reason enough for repubs to be banned from political action. It certainly would rule them out at my house. The risk is there no matter what, but I guess being in the bulls eye is enough to say, piss on the country.
Do you mean like the threats encouraged by Jim Jordan from their own side, for not following the extremes of their side?
When I spent a year with Democrats campaigning for Bernie Sanders, and then Hillary in 2016, the group I was with absolutely rejected threatening anyone and showed the door to any volunteers who seemed to even suggest doing so.
I was asked by a fundraiser in my old party to fight dirtier than Democrats (back in 1996). I left the party instead, though I still worked around many that knew the party was doing things like pressuring moderate candidates and spending funds fighting their own moderates (with a lot of the money donated by moderates but diverted to the most "conservative" candidates they could recruit and train). Then it seemed sponsored crowds were bussed in and encouraged to show their rage at rallies and town halls anytime their Senators were back home and attending such events.
Nothing was that dark that I knew about back before 2000, but it certainly seems like the old tactics they were suggesting I participate in, on steroids, no principles, just raw threats of what the world for them would look like even after they left office.
I think the Tea Party was the warm up act, Jim. They (and of course Gingrich and the Kochs) made primaries the threat. Seems to me Pistol Packin' Palin and Sharron Angle upped the stakes in the oughts, and then comes the dumptruck towing Proud Oathkeeping 3% Bots. That was a typo, but I like it better than Boys.
Bravo that you recognized what was going on with the
R party and leaving it to preserve your sanity!
Things were worse in the late ‘50’s and early to mid ‘60’s, especially for Black folks. Constant threats led to murders and lynchings by the KKK. These groups we now see have joined forces with others Ike we saw with the Proud Boys and Three Percenters. Mostly all white and mostly all men with a few exceptions of women.
Are there two left who don’t want a job with chump
You'd think the Republicans Congresscritters would be getting tired of the death threats they receive. Don Bacon mentioned several months ago he sleeps with a gun next to his bed. But these Congresscritters leave their partners and children at home alone and that has to weigh on them when they are in Washington.
Would that not be reason enough for repubs to be banned from political action. It certainly would rule them out at my house. The risk is there no matter what, but I guess being in the bulls eye is enough to say, piss on the country.
Do you mean like the threats encouraged by Jim Jordan from their own side, for not following the extremes of their side?
When I spent a year with Democrats campaigning for Bernie Sanders, and then Hillary in 2016, the group I was with absolutely rejected threatening anyone and showed the door to any volunteers who seemed to even suggest doing so.
I was asked by a fundraiser in my old party to fight dirtier than Democrats (back in 1996). I left the party instead, though I still worked around many that knew the party was doing things like pressuring moderate candidates and spending funds fighting their own moderates (with a lot of the money donated by moderates but diverted to the most "conservative" candidates they could recruit and train). Then it seemed sponsored crowds were bussed in and encouraged to show their rage at rallies and town halls anytime their Senators were back home and attending such events.
Friends had worked for Lamar Alexander's campaigns and described what he faced as threatening crowds to change his views and support, to me distorting his more moderate policies as I saw them back when I was still a Republican. I don't know what they think of articles like https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/1/31/21116689/trump-impeachment-lamar-alexander-witness-bolton
and https://www.vox.com/23899688/2024-election-republican-primary-death-threats-trump
Nothing was that dark that I knew about back before 2000, but it certainly seems like the old tactics they were suggesting I participate in, on steroids, no principles, just raw threats of what the world for them would look like even after they left office.
I think the Tea Party was the warm up act, Jim. They (and of course Gingrich and the Kochs) made primaries the threat. Seems to me Pistol Packin' Palin and Sharron Angle upped the stakes in the oughts, and then comes the dumptruck towing Proud Oathkeeping 3% Bots. That was a typo, but I like it better than Boys.
Bravo that you recognized what was going on with the
R party and leaving it to preserve your sanity!
Things were worse in the late ‘50’s and early to mid ‘60’s, especially for Black folks. Constant threats led to murders and lynchings by the KKK. These groups we now see have joined forces with others Ike we saw with the Proud Boys and Three Percenters. Mostly all white and mostly all men with a few exceptions of women.
Th threats are worse for Dems.
I do wonder if there is much difference in who the threats are directed against, but not so much about who the threats come from.
Back in Detroit in the 70s, it was very much against people of color, but seemed more so against white citizens that tried to treat others as equals.