The Left-wing political establishment consisting of the Democratic Party and its sycophantic allies in the press have begun a dangerous process that will have disastrous consequences for the future of our republic: They have launched a campaign of fear, intimidation and violence against Republicans and conservatives in their bid to bring such behavior into the mainstream and turn it into the new normal.
— Police in Tennessee recently arrested and charged a woman, Wendi Wright, with felony reckless endangerment for allegedly attempting to run U.S. Rep. David Kustoff, a Republican, off the road following a town hall event. Wright was outraged over the congressman's stated support for an Obamacare replacement bill, the American Health Care Act, and screamed at him and his aide, Marianne Dunavant, eventually hitting his car windows and trying to grab them inside the vehicle.
— The same day as the incident in Tennessee, cops in North Dakota escorted an outraged man from another town hall event when he got physical with GOP Rep. Kevin Cramer, again over his support for the Republicans' Obamacare replacement bill.
Unbelievable. Now, if Cramer were a Democrat there would have been media outrage.
On another note, you'll notice that no Republican voters are showing up at Democrat town halls behaving stupidly and violently.
Starting today and from here on, no elected official ― certainly those in the GOP defending and supporting Trump on a variety of issues, for example ― should be able to sit down for a nice, quiet lunch or dinner in a Washington, DC eatery or even in their own homes. They should be hounded by protestors everywhere, especially in public ― in restaurants, in shopping centers, in their districts, and yes, on the public property outside their homes and apartments, in Washington and back in their home states.
White House officials too ― those enabling the authoritarian ― need to be challenged everywhere, as do all those at the conservative think tanks who support Trump and those who publicly defend him in their columns and on television.
This is an open call for harassment and violence to be committed against elected officials who, in representing actual voters, are pursuing policies and legislation that Leftists don't agree with, pure and simple. It is no more complex than that; they feel that just because they don't agree, they somehow have a right to criminally disrupt the lives of those who hold opposing views. And yet they claim to be on the side of tolerance and understanding. It's hypocrisy on steroids.
— As reported by Big League Politics, a bar in Portland, OR., is actually offering whiskey for life to any patron who punches Steve Bannon, President Donald J. Trump's senior political strategist. The bar, called Paydirt, is printing the invitation on the bottom of its receipts.
The site also notes that it is a Class C or D felony under 18 U.S. Code to threaten public officials other than the president. Also, it's against the law to solicit violence against public officials.
But this all just fine, see, because it's Trump and Republicans, and since Leftists have 'decided' it's alright, then it is alright.
Except that it's not. It never has been.
Barring a law enforcement crackdown on these kinds of outrageous provocations, Republicans and conservatives will likely start pushing – and hitting – back. Count on it.