Posted on 08/29/2018 9:33:15 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.) condemned President Trump’s warning of possible violence if the Democrats take back the House in the fall, calling it “fascism in the flesh.”
“This is fascism in the flesh. This is the language of a fanatic that could be lifted from a tyrant’s playbook,” Pascrell tweeted Wednesday. “This is not a warning but an incitement. Unless we stand united against it."
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The president told evangelical leaders Monday that Democrats will “violently” overturn Republican gains if they win back the lower chamber.
“They will overturn everything that we've done and they'll do it quickly and violently, and violently,” the president said.
“There's violence. When you look at antifa and you look at some of these groups — these are violent people,” he continued.
Some factions of antifa, a loosely organized group of self-described anti-fascists, have condoned violence as an appropriate response to what they consider fascism. Most recently, some antifa members were arrested Saturday when they clashed with police at a “Blue Lives Matter” rally.
Trump and other Republicans have tried to link antifa with liberals as they try to stave off a "blue wave" in November. A RealClearPolitics average of polls currently shows Democrats with a nearly 7-point lead over the GOP on the generic ballot.
CNN’s Don Lemon on Tuesday appeared to defend antifa after the president’s comments about the group to evangelical leaders.
“Listen, no organization is perfect. There was some violence. No one condones violence, but there were different reasons for antifa and for these neo-Nazis to be there,” Lemon said. “One, racists, fascists, the other group, fighting racist fascists. There is a distinction there.”
CNN chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin called Trump’s criticism of antifa an “appeal to racism,” saying the group “is widely perceived as an African-American association.”
“Let's be clear also about what's going on here, the theme here is ‘I'm Donald Trump and I'll protect you from the scary black people,’” Toobin said.
I really wish Sara would have a video screen for various news stories. Example this one. She reads the comment by the Dem Lawmaker and then shows a photo of the mass of white Anifa protestors.
Next story, do the same, etc.
I wonder why they did away with hosting small news stations allowing them the chance to ask questions. I really liked that idea.
CNN chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin called Trump’s criticism of antifa an “appeal to racism,” saying the group “is widely perceived as an African-American association.
So if these people are supposedly black, and blacks predominantly vote democrap, what’s the problem with the statement?
Nobody "perceives" that -- or thinks it.
For all I know, Antifa may not even let Blacks join.
Every Antifa member I’ve ever seen is whiter than sour cream. If there are black Antifa people, they’re doing a real good job of hiding themselves. Antifa are the next generation of the people who rioted in Seattle in 1999.
We will whip them so bad it will be humiliating........................ YEAH!! like Obama the Community organizer. Don’t count your eggs too early.
POTUS is right!
Full throttle violence, win or lose!
Let’s make certain they LOSE!
OMG — This is too good to believe. A communist?? get real.
Because defending yourself against leftist slaughter is considered fascist violence.
The idiot patrol at FNN (Fake Newsfree Network) literally is defending Antifa because they attack “fascists”. Great. The idea of attacking Neo-Nazis seems to be a thing that is trying wrongfully to defend freedom. They aren’t doing that. They declared the police, the news, basically anyone to the right of Chairman Mao, is a fascist. When you allow your media to dehumanize your opposition and the Democrats follow that, you generate things like Antifa who think they are justified with attacking the sub-humanoids that they have been brainwashed to believe are racist, fascist and any other -ist they can make up.
This is the followed path of allowing the left to conquer our schools, because they went after everything else after that. They brainwashed students for decades and now we have many brainwashed fools running around beating people with the expectation that they are justified because their professors told them that conservatism is fascism.
Come on. You can’t pick on pathetic Jeffie like that. He sees the black riot gear, black masks, black body armor and presumes that’s skin and everyone else sees them as black too.
Pathetic Jeffie is desperate for attention now that his network is losing to repeats of The Andy Griffith Show on Ion TV.
Nah. It will be done faster than it took the morgue truck to get to Chappaquiddick.
If they win, there will be violence from them in the streets trying to rush their anti-American agenda down our throats. Probably a few red streets and this whole thing will be on a corrective course.
If they lose, I’d say about 3 hours later, CWII starts, and about an hour after that, it ends with 91% casualties on their side and 4 band-aids needed for ours.
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