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"WHEN SOMEONE SUPPORTS DONALD TRUMP, HERE IS WHAT YOU GET."
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BY: REX HUPPKE. USA TODAY.
Some Republicans are finally getting a close look at the MAGA folks they've been pandering to and their response is: 'Yikes, these people are scary. I don't want to support this!'
Death threats. Intimidation. Family members called out by strangers.
A number of House Republicans who refuse to support right-wing Rep. Jim Jordan for House speaker are suddenly learning the true language of Donald Trump’s MAGA movement, a movement they have either tolerated or nurtured for years. While MAGA fury is usually directed at liberals, this time it's hitting them like unfriendly fire.
Rep. Nick LaLota of New York, after voting against Jordan, said he received an email that read: “Go f--- yourself and die if I see your face, I will whip all the hair out of your f---ing head you f---ing scumbag.”
Some Republicans are learning how it feels when MAGA attacks
Rep. Drew Ferguson of Georgia said in a statement that after voting against Jordan, his family started receiving death threats: "That is simply unacceptable, unforgivable, and will never be tolerated.”
Axios reported that Ferguson told other House Republicans in a Thursday meeting “that he’s had to have a sheriff stationed at his daughter’s school over death threats from the far right. Also one at his house.”
The New York Times reported that the wife of Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska "has begun sleeping with a loaded gun after receiving increasingly menacing anonymous calls and texts.”
Rep. Ken Buck of Colorado said Thursday: “I've had four death threats. I've been evicted from my office in Colorado … because the landlord is mad with my voting record on the speaker issue, and everybody in the conference is getting this. ... Family members have been approached and threatened.”
With Trump, 'violence is his political project now'
This behavior is horrible and unacceptable. It’s also entirely predictable to anyone who has paid attention to a political movement forged in violent rhetoric and seemingly driven by the destruction of social and political norms.
Just recently, Trump has suggested that a top U.S. general be executed, mocked the violent hammer attack on a Democratic lawmaker’s husband and talked about shooting shoplifters.
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In March, he railed against Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s hush money investigation on Truth Social, warning of “potential death & destruction” if he is charged and calling Bragg “a degenerate psychopath.”
Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a New York University historian, told The Associated Press: “Violence is his political project now. It is the thing, besides his own victimhood, that he brings up the most.”
Folks who identify as MAGA often parrot Trump's violent rhetoric
Like their avatar, Trump loyalists often lean into bullying and threats, enamored with flexing a faux toughness that comes easy when anonymous emails and social media accounts protect them from consequences.
When Jordan became a House speaker candidate, he quickly got Trump’s blessing and the extended MAGA universe rose up, excited to see one of their own get a shot at running the show.
Steve Bannon, a former Trump White House adviser and human embodiment of the phrase “all hat, no cattle,” ordered his Trump-obsessed podcast listeners to go after Republican holdouts: “Call them and get in their grill. Let them know what you think … Email, call their local office, all of it, burn it down. That's right. Get up in their face.”
And so they did. And it backfired, because these Republicans finally got a close look at the kind of folks they’ve been pandering to and thought, “Yikes, these people are scary. I don’t want to support this!”
That's to their credit. Fear of the MAGA base is a big reason so many Republican lawmakers have remained loyal to Trump through an insurrection and a slew of indictments. Bucking that trend, in today's chaotic and unraveling Republican Party, is downright courageous.
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MAGA enthusiasts tend to be bullies who run at the first sign of consequences
Jordan responded to the threats by putting out a statement on social media Wednesday saying, “We condemn all threats against our colleagues.”
But that has always been Trump and the broader MAGA movement’s game. Say outrageous things and then, when those statements spark chaos or violent threats, pretend that was never the point.
Of course it’s the point. It has always been the point, ever since Trump first bullied his way onto the political scene and cowed so-called normal Republicans with veiled threats and truckloads of red meat to throw at a base right-wing talk radio and television spent years priming for violence.
We saw it all culminate at the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
This is your monster, Republicans. You brought this beast to life by tolerating an unmoored narcissist. You let it grow and gave it permission to lash out in all directions.
And I bet if the presidential election were tomorrow and I asked you who you’re supporting, you’d utter these two ridiculous words: Donald Trump.
Some never learn. If you put up with a dog that bites strangers, you can’t be surprised when it sinks its teeth into you.
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WHEN SOMEONE SUPPORTS DONALD TRUMP, HERE IS WHAT YOU GET.
FAMILY OR STRANGER
FRIEND OR FOE
WHEN SOMEONE SUPPORTS DONALD TRUMP, HERE IS WHAT THEY ARE OK WITH.
3/30/2016.
Trump on abortion.
“Do you believe in punishment for abortion – yes or no – as a principle?”
“The answer is there has to be some form of punishment.”
“For the woman?”
“Yeah, there has to be some form.”
8/10/2016.
NOTHING LIKE SUGGESTING ASSASSINATION.
CANDIDATE TRUMP TALKING ABOUT HILLARY CLINTON,
“If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks.
Although the second amendment people, maybe there is,
I don’t know. But I’ll tell you what, that will be a horrible day.”
12/8/2017
IN TRUMPS WORLD, INNOCENT VICTIMS ARE GUILTY
IF THEY'RE KILLED BY HIS SUPPORTERS.
Trump on the violence committed by Domestic Terrorists
“We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides. On many sides.”
6/4/2018
PRESIDENT TRUMP CAN PARDON...PRESIDENT TRUMP.
"...I have the absolute right to PARDON myself..."
11/1/2018.
DONALD TRUMP OM IMMIGRATION.
“Why are we having all these people from shithole countries coming here?”
The following exchange occurred during a White House Press conference on Wednesday, Sept 24, 2020.
“Win, lose, or draw in this election, will you commit here today for a peaceful transferal of power after the election?” reporter Brian Karem asked Donald Trump, who didn’t even attempt to give the impression he cares whatsoever about preserving democracy. “Well, we’re going to have to see what happens,” Trump said. “You know that. I’ve been complaining very strongly about the ballots, and the ballots are a disaster.” Pressed again to “commit to making sure that there’s a peaceful transferal of power,” Trump responded, “Get rid of the ballots and...we’ll have a very peaceful—there won’t be a transfer, frankly. There will be a continuation. The ballots are out of control. You know it. You know who knows it better than anybody else? The Democrats know better than anybody else.”
''...Pressed again to “commit to making sure that there’s a peaceful transferal of power,” Trump responded, “Get rid of the ballots and...we’ll have a very peaceful—there won’t be a transfer, frankly. There will be a continuation."
THE STATEMENT: “Get rid of the ballots and...we’ll have a very peaceful..." IS AN ASSERTION OF FACT BY TRUMP, AND MEANS THE FOLLOWING:
TRUMP IS CLAIMING THAT HE KNOWS WHAT WILL BRING FORTH A PEACEFUL RESOLUTION. WHETHER OR NOT HE CAN MAKE IT HAPPEN, OR HAS KNOWLEDGE OF WHAT WILL OCCUR SHOULD THIS REQUIREMENT FOR A "PEACEFUL RESOLUTION" NOT BE MET IS IRRELEVANT. "GET RID OF THE BALLOTS" IS A "DO WHAT I WANT" OR "PAY THE PRICE" ULTIMATUM.
SO DONALD IS NOW THE SUPREME JUDGE ON WHETHER ELECTION RESULTS SHOULD BE HONORED, OR VOIDED.
TRUMP TALKS ABOUT RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE IN THE 2016 ELECTION.WHOM DOES TRUMP BELIEVE: U.S. INTELLIGENCE OR VLADIMIR PUTIN?
HOW DOES THAT OLD SAYING GO? YOU DON'T BITE THE HAND THAT FEEDS YOU. https://youtu.be/mBtsNNXjBPw
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