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Democrats: Embrace Incivility!
The New Republic ^ | 18 Oct. 2026 | Jason Linkins

Posted on 10/19/2026 7:23:13 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Georgia Senator Jon Ossoff is leading the rise of the rude Democrat. More should follow his lead.

In recent weeks, I’ve been fortunate enough to observe two competing visions for Democratic senators should they retake the upper chamber in next month’s midterm elections. On the one hand, we have Senators Martin Heinrich and Sheldon Whitehouse, who announced at the end of September that they were teaming up with their Republican counterparts Mike Lee and Shelley Moore Capito on the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act of 2026, which the quartet believe will “reform the federal environmental review and permitting process.” Per their press release, “This groundbreaking agreement will deliver cheaper energy, more jobs, and responsible growth across the United States.”

On the other hand, we have Senator Jon Ossoff, who has taken the debate stage twice in recent days to tell his Republican opponent to his face that he’s a racist scumbag.

My paraphrasing here is more blunt than the rhetoric that Ossoff has been using, but only just. In the pair’s first debate, Ossoff threw daggers, accusing Representative Mike Collins of hiring “half the Third Reich to staff [his] congressional office,” adding, “If John Lewis were marching today from Selma to Montgomery, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club.” During Tuesday night’s debate, an embittered Collins tried to play the civility card, claiming that Ossoff’s incendiary statements about Collins’s very real embrace of white supremacy had led to death threats. Ossoff breezily brushed away the accusation and went back for more. Referring to Collins’s son-in-law, a white-nationalist influencer, Ossoff jabbed: “Can you commit for just three weeks to stop the production of neo-Nazi propaganda from your home?”

This is like watching a fever finally break, and it’s not just Ossoff. In the Michigan Senate race, Abdul El-Sayed has gone at Mike Rogers with both barrels, repeatedly referring to the former congressman as weak and cowardly. In Maine … well, let’s just say that I wished Troy Jackson had a bit of that dog in him, but he doesn’t. Still, I can tell he’s trying, and his better moments against Senator Susan Collins, like telling her “You can’t eat road salt,” at least have a bit of a surly edge. At any rate, the rise of rude Democrats has got me believing in the potential cure for one of our greatest civic maladies: degenerative Senate brain, the very condition that leads a Sheldon Whitehouse or a Martin Heinrich to work with MAGA filth bent on desecrating the constitutional order.

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: leftism

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1 posted on 10/19/2026 7:23:13 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Just keeping track of what the marxist ‘RATs are up to.


2 posted on 10/19/2026 7:23:29 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

“Just keeping track of what the marxist ‘RATs are up to.”

Unlike most Americans who will vote for the commies because they think they aren’t getting enough freebies from the government. Boy are they in for a rude shock.


3 posted on 10/19/2026 7:31:46 AM PDT by brownsfan (We are already on the slippery slope.)
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To: brownsfan

Ossoff was more than calm and composed. He was suave, smooth-talking and looked sophisticated in a suit just like Obama, JFK, and BJ minus the looks. We never seem to recognize or respond to their formula. We depend on the voters knowing better. Calling Collins a racist and a bigot onstage with no response is taking it sitting down. W turning the other cheek led to 8 years in the wilderness, thanks to McCain and Romney doing the same thing while the left was busy casting Hillary aside for the Kenyan. Let’s hope their formula won’t work in Michigan. This time around their colors are showing as it always does-too often too late. If Collins beats Ossoff it will be a miracle. Just remember Georgia is winnable and we just don’t get it.


4 posted on 10/19/2026 7:34:08 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: MtnClimber

We don’t hate them enough.


5 posted on 10/19/2026 7:34:13 AM PDT by Reddy (BO stinks)
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To: MtnClimber

Yeah, been noticing Ossoff has a big mouth.

And who is this @$$hat Jason to encourage more of the same from the ‘Rats?


6 posted on 10/19/2026 7:35:05 AM PDT by sauropod ("They eventually succomb to the dollar" - President Donald J. Trump Ne supra crepidam)
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To: MtnClimber

They are now saying out loud what we’ve been warning people about for decades


7 posted on 10/19/2026 7:35:31 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)
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To: MtnClimber

They already “Embraced Incivility” by celebrating the murder of Kirk, yelling “F#ck Ice” in the faces of law enforcement while hurling bricks at them, and rioting/looting/committing arson and murdering 5 people during the summer of Floyd. Etc.

If they should regain power, their next level of Embracing Incivility will include the curtailing of 1st and 2nd amendment rights, maximum lawfare and imprisonment of conservatives. They just aren’t saying the quiet parts out loud yet.


8 posted on 10/19/2026 7:46:46 AM PDT by Reddy (BO stinks)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

“If Collins beats Ossoff it will be a miracle.”

Most folks can’t remember the name of the guy running for (R) senate Georgia. A miracle is a good way the say it. Seems the tide may be slowly turning fr Jackson as Gov...at least we see the signs beginning to pop up. But Collins is a no-show.


9 posted on 10/19/2026 7:51:52 AM PDT by devane617 (Facts Do Not Matter To Those On The Left—It's Their God.)
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To: sauropod

“Rise of the rude Democrat”? Really? This is new? It’s hard to date when they went into hyperdrive. One possible starting point is when Ted Kennedy and Biden decided to use public utterance of outright lies against Robert Bork. Or Obama telling people to “get in the face” of people who disagree with them. There are a thousand examples.

The Muslims pull this same crap, the whole put upon muzzie schtick they run where any opposition to them in racist. The point being that the rats have been dramatic low down dirty fighters for decades


10 posted on 10/19/2026 7:52:38 AM PDT by j.havenfarm (25 years on Free Republic, 12/10/25! More than 12,750 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: j.havenfarm

Alec Baldwin saying “We should stone Henry Hyde and his family to death.”


11 posted on 10/19/2026 7:56:23 AM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: dfwgator

Oh, yes! Another golden oldie from these verminous thugs! “Rise of the rude democrat,” my butt.


12 posted on 10/19/2026 8:16:28 AM PDT by j.havenfarm (25 years on Free Republic, 12/10/25! More than 12,750 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: MtnClimber

So that’s what DEI really means...


13 posted on 10/19/2026 8:21:08 AM PDT by LastDayz (A Blunt and Brazen Texan. I Will Not Be Assimilated.)
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To: j.havenfarm
..the rats have been dramatic low down dirty fighters for decades...

...at least since 1967 when campus young democrats stated incivility to be justified.

14 posted on 10/19/2026 10:18:18 AM PDT by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump)
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To: MtnClimber
Don't tell me. Let me guess.

Civility is racist?????

15 posted on 10/19/2026 11:17:21 AM PDT by Savage Beast (When the student is ready, the teacher appears. When the people are ready, the hero appears.)
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To: Savage Beast
Politeness is REALLY RACIST!

See any minority immigrants? There you gp.

16 posted on 10/19/2026 11:30:23 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber
There you go. Doh!
17 posted on 10/19/2026 11:32:28 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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