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They’ve made violence an acceptable response to losing elections. Trump needs to be behind bars or this will continue.
It’s called domestic terrorism. >

And unfortunately he will almost certainly end up running again for office with this as the primary part of his resume, and will most likely win based on it. >

The district he ran in is heavily Democratic. >


The district he ran in is heavily Democratic.

No, it was rigged, I saw him talking about it in his Twitter feed.  Over, and over, and over, and over again.  Based on his word, the word of a convicted felon for burglary, larceny, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, and receiving stolen property, he won like 99% of the district.  He said he'll never concede. And sadly this won't bother a non-insignificant portion of the country. >

And not conceding is totes a legal thing and not, like, a formality right?
Conspiracy!!!! /s >

/s to you, maybe.  I know people who actually believe that all you have to do is not concede your opponent's victory and that will magically invalidate the election. >

Those people are responsible for us having to use /s.  You used to be able to be sarcastic about such things and it was simply understood. >

Poe's Law is a real bastard >

I would expect more of this. MAGA supporters have consistently shown they view widely accepted rules and legal frameworks as optional.
If you are going to launch an insurrection a few shootings and beating will be seen as good choices by unhinged people especially if they can side step consequences and let somebody else take the fall the way Trump supporters have for their deity. There are tons of them that want to be sacrificed. >

One of those things that's hard to intuit about the GOP is their leadership is much smarter than the rank and file, and their leadership are a bunch of idiots.
Democrats spend way too much time pointing out hypocrisies in their arguments that they couldn't care less about. We need to focus on how dangerous and out of touch these people have become, because not only does that actually resonate with voters, it accurately shows the threat of the modern Republican party.
If a losing candidate would shoot up the houses of the people who defeated him, what would someone like this do if they won? >

Exactly.  There are so many A-ha! moments where Democrats point out hypocrisies and then sort of wait for it to matter.  It's like they think this is some debate class from high school in the 70's.  They have shown that Trump or Gaetz or whichever lunatic said this but then said that and so...so they are...bad!  That'll show 'em!
One side is tearing democracy to shreds and the other is asking them to stop or else there might eventually be a very small consequence or not. >

Paul Pelosi was nearly killed and the media just moved on after about a week or so. The hypernormalization is atrocious. This should be huge but it won’t be. >

And the MAGA crowd is fully convinced it was a lover's quarrel with his boyfriend. >

The MAGA crowd is fully convinced it was anything other than what the official story is. >

These are people who love politicians who lie to them. >

Political violence, banning books, intertwining politics with religion, a rise in domestic terrorism, increasing anti-semitism, and attacks on personal freedoms. If only there were warning signs /s
American voters sent a message in the mid terms that they’re over anti-Democratic, election denying candidates, but some got through and some were very close.  
Maybe we’ll step away from that ledge before we repeat history. >

The problem is that the people doing these things want to repeat history, they just want to do a better job this time.
Which means that as soon as they really get moving they will treat us with far more brutality than the nazis used towards their victims. >

The current state of affairs, IMO, is more akin to the rise of Pol Pot. The anti-intellectualism, the violence towards libraries, learning institutions, and the demonization of college educated people all follow the path Pol Pot used. >

>The anti-intellectualism, the violence towards libraries, learning 
institutions, and the demonization of college educated people all follow
 the path Pol Pot used.
These tactics were also used by Nazis, and many Fascist groups in general. >

Republicans will be very sad that this will be used to create some pattern they feel is false and very lone wolfy random extremist who doesn't hold their same beliefs >

"iT's A fALsE fLaG!!1!" >

iT wAs AnTiFa! >

Of course he is a republican...It's the entire party now... >

Future CPAC darling >

Teaming up with Kyle Rittenhouse. >

Weird way to say terrorist. >

Party of Law and Order, huh? >

"Law and order" has always been a racist dog whistle, so yes, the GOP absolutely still is the party of "Law and Order." >

Piece of SHIT... >

“Both sides” everybody… 
There is a well documented, disproportionate amount of political violence on the right compared to the left, and the mass media really sucks at covering it. These people are terrorists. >

The party of liars playbook. If i can't win fair and square, no problem just scare the opponent into resigning.