Prominent Democrats encouraging bad behavior
The political landscape has become increasingly unbridled this year with conservative figures other than Cruz getting heckled and punched and kicked out of restaurants — and prominent Democrats have been encouraging such behavior.
Hillary Clinton said in an interview last week that “you cannot be civil” with Republicans and that “civility can start again” if the Democrats win back the U.S. Senate, the House of Representatives, or both come November.
Former Attorney General Eric Holder recently was caught on video turning around the Democratic mantra, “When they go low, we go high,” by saying, “No, no. When they go low, we kick them!”
U.S. Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey in July urged activists in Washington, D.C., to “go to the Hill” and “get up in the face of some congresspeople.”
U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters of California in June infamously ranted to supporters to “create a crowd” and “push back on” members of President Donald Trump’s cabinet if they’re seen “in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station.” She added in her speech, “You tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.”
In recent days, the ante only seems to have been upped:
An official with Minnesota’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party commented on Facebook that Republicans should be brought “to the guillotines” Nov. 7 — the day after the midterm elections — which earned the official a weeklong suspension.
The campaign manager for Nevada Republican gubernatorial nominee Adam Laxalt said she was physically attacked Tuesday night in Las Vegas by a man she recognized as a liberal activist.
And a Vermont mother of two daughters who’s running as a Republican for the state’s House of Representatives said she received a left-wing death and rape threat in a pro-“Socialism” letter mailed to her home which said, “We are hunting you.”
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