What amazes me is that life-long friends who live in MA and CT do not understand at all how the threat of mob violence terrifies most people who live in the real world. I wonder if Maine voters will rally around Senator Collins because it’s out-of-state agitators who are ginning up the hatred.
That is a very good point. The US has always been a generally stable country where mob violence is pretty unthinkable, particularly officially sanctioned mob violence (that is, the “respectable,” official Democratic party is fully supporting these crowds of loonies and their violence) so it’s hard for most person to imagine what it would like to have scores of hate-filled, vilolent people outside your house screaming for your blood, threatening your family., etc. I hope she gets some support from the decent people of Maine.