Armed Antifa in Georgia:
In Texas:
Nobody shot at them.
Posted on 07/02/2019 5:09:42 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
Byron York warned Monday of the rising "toxicity" of the anti-Trump resistance movement, highlighting three troubling developments in recent days.
In a Washington Examiner column, titled "Anti-Trump fever takes threatening turn," York points to two op-eds specifically in the New York Times and Washington Post that he characterized as "rationalizations for denying Trump supporters public accommodation and for doxxing career federal employees."
Appearing on "America's Newsroom," York noted that the co-owner of a Virginia restaurant who refused to serve then-White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said she believes the "rules are changing" when it comes to businesses or their staffers expressing political opposition.
In the op-ed, Stephanie Wilkinson responded to an incident in which Eric Trump was spat on by an employee of a Chicago cocktail bar and said if Trump officials do not want to face such anger, "maybe [they] should consider dining at home."
He also highlighted a weekend op-ed in the New York Times in which a London human rights professor effectively called on people to "doxx" Border Patrol agents, arguing such steps are needed to stop "mass atrocity" from occurring at the border.
On top of that, York lamented the Antifa attack on conservative journalist Andy Ngo as he covered a Proud Boys rally in Portland, Ore.
Video from the incident doesn't show what precipitated the attack or what followed it, but Ngo can be seen being kicked, punched, doused with a milkshake and sprayed with an unknown substance.
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Thanks - found some other articles.
Trump’s likely re-election I fear will result in this seething hatred of all things Trump to boil over into violence. I would expect burning cities, acts of terrorism and even political assassinations. Trump will likely put down these insurrection by military force if necessary
You say that like it is a bad thing.
The fact of Sessions’ recusal makes it hard to argue the point, but I’ll try anyway:
I just think “jailing a bunch of these fascists” was always far easier said than done.
Case in point: as strong and un-Sessions-like as Barr is, he hasn’t done it either, and he enjoys huge advantages that Jeff Sessions never had - not the least of which is the fact that Trump has now been inoculated by a thorough 2 year cavity search and by submitting to it has proven to reasonable Americans that he is no Nixon. When Sessions (supposedly) had his chance, Trump hadn’t yet proven himself - I don’t think he wanted Sessions to throw anyone in jail.
I think scape-goating is sometimes a political necessary - and I don’t fault President Trump at all for doing it - but some day, perhaps in his memoirs, I hope he pulls the hapless Jeff Sessions our from under the bus.
I agree that actually jailing people is tougher to pull off than it seems. My beef with Sessions is he didn’t even try.
You have to send messages. If DemoKKKrats/antifa creeps had to spend lots of $ to get acquitted, that alone would have been just one impediment to more mischief.
But I agree that until we know for sure what happened with Sessions, the history of this era will never be complete.
Armed Antifa in Georgia:
In Texas:
Nobody shot at them.
“You have to send messages.“
True. I think now that Mueller has formally thrown in the towel, team Trump may finally be able to do that. I see it as being kind of like marriage counseling protocol, where whoever goes first has to be allowed to list grievances without interruption - and the other spouse just has to listen. If the designated listener interrupts, scowls, denies or defends, then the whole process unwinds and the $100 is wasted.
I think for whatever reason, President Trump was the designated listener and had to just shut up and take it - and he did just that. I admit Sessions did nothing, but I don’t see any evidence that Trump or anyone else on his team was rattling the cages to circumvent Sessions or get him out of the way - it looked to me like it was a team decision to do nothing. The fact that President Trump now outspokenly blames Sessions doesn’t convince me otherwise.
Two years later maybe it’s finally Trump’s turn to talk. I hope so, because - like you said - messages need to be sent.
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