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Barr: ‘Radical Progressive Movement’ Is ‘Main Danger to our Democracy’ — Today ‘Makes the McCarthy Era Look Like Child’s Play’
Breitbart ^ | 01/20/2023 | Ian hatchett

Posted on 01/21/2023 7:11:26 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” former Attorney General Bill Barr stated that “the main danger to our democracy, frankly, is the sort of radical progressive movement” and that free public discourse is under attack in a way that “on a daily basis makes the McCarthy era look like child’s play.”

Barr said, “[W]hen confronted with the question, if Trump is the party’s nominee and he’s running against Biden, who would you vote for? And I say it’s hard for me to see — I just find it hard to believe that I could vote against the Republican nominee under those circumstances, because I think the main threat to the United States and the main danger to our democracy, frankly, is the sort of radical progressive movement and the lurch to the left that has taken place –.”

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: 2024election; barr; barrf; billbarr; billboard; communists; movement; progressive; progressives; radical; trump
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Whatever, liar. You worked to get Trump out. Now you say the biggest threat to democracy is the other side? Phony.


21 posted on 01/21/2023 7:51:28 AM PST by pepsi_junkie ("We want no Gestapo or Secret Police. F. B. I. is tending in that direction." - Harry S Truman)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

What a moron.


22 posted on 01/21/2023 7:51:51 AM PST by Sarcazmo ("Sarcasm is the highest form of wit" ~ O. Wilde)
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To: Chgogal

23 posted on 01/21/2023 7:52:41 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

Bill Barr is Trump Approved®


24 posted on 01/21/2023 7:58:29 AM PST by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Goldwater 2024)
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To: thegagline

Mitch made it clear to Trump that it would be Barr or nothing.


25 posted on 01/21/2023 7:59:39 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The fact he is back tells me he is up to something and it is not hard to guess what that may be by what he is talking about.


26 posted on 01/21/2023 8:00:29 AM PST by dforest (Joy Behar is a big mouth cow.)
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To: dfwgator
Mitch made it clear to Trump that it would be Barr or nothing.

So President Trump was a supplicant? The buck stops somewhere else?

27 posted on 01/21/2023 8:04:17 AM PST by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Goldwater 2024)
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To: thegagline

It’s a “Three-Ring Circus” kind of thing.


28 posted on 01/21/2023 8:04:43 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: marktwain

Yep, he told Trump, and the American public, that he had investigated the election fraud claims. There was no investigation. He simply decided for himself (or let it be decided for him by his masters) that there was no need to investigate. He is derelict, a liar, and a betrayer.


29 posted on 01/21/2023 8:13:23 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: thegagline

Yeah, I’ve never bought that cop out. There was a method that could have been used to bypass Mitch, and Trump in fact started using it towards the end of his term, but he should have used it the minute that the Turtle tried to hold him hostage.


30 posted on 01/21/2023 8:15:08 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: Leaning Right

No SH**! I read the first two sentences and thought; when is Bill Maher going to admit what is obvious - the two party system as constituted today are working together on every predictable outcome of their actions/inactions.


31 posted on 01/21/2023 8:15:35 AM PST by linedrive
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To: sopo

Well, there were some recent FOIA releases that proved he never ordered any investigation of the election fraud claims. He just lied and said that he did, and further lied and said the “investigation” found nothing.


32 posted on 01/21/2023 8:18:43 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Yeah, and you helped them Barr, you jerk.


33 posted on 01/21/2023 8:22:56 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (The only way to secure your own future is to create it yourself. 111 is the key.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Wait…I thought it was a tie between white supremacy and domestic terrorism.


34 posted on 01/21/2023 8:24:04 AM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: rlmorel
"Joseph McCarthy was an American Hero who purchased us several decades more before the Leftists came out of the closet and began their destruction of our country in earnest."

AMEN! to that. He fought a valiant fight that delayed the communist onslaught a little bit. His communist enemies destroyed him for that.

35 posted on 01/21/2023 8:25:24 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (Once you get people to believe that a plural pronoun is singular, they'll believe anything - nicollo)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Blame Barr for being Barr all you want folks.

He didn't put himself in as AG. Nor did sleepy Jeff.

36 posted on 01/21/2023 8:31:11 AM PST by Last Dakotan
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Late to the party, IMO.


37 posted on 01/21/2023 8:32:51 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: rlmorel
But he had his chance and took the side of the Leftists.

It honestly seems like he thought Biden was a loyal member of the Deep State Establishment - a reliable Old DC Hand - only to learn too late that he is actually a senile puppet of the same Obama-era Radical Progressive Movement he correctly identifies and reviles.

And many, many other veteran Republicans thought the same thing - overestimating the danger Trump posed to the defense/intelligence cosa nostra and underestimating the danger Biden's real backers posed to the economy and social structure of the nation.

DeSantis might offer them a compromise way out, but they should never be forgiven for stabbing Trump in the back.

38 posted on 01/21/2023 8:33:13 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: ChicagoConservative27
former Attorney General Bill Barr stated that “the main danger to our democracy, frankly, is the sort of radical progressive movement” and that free public discourse is under attack

Where was this (version of) Bill Barr when we needed him?

39 posted on 01/21/2023 8:42:11 AM PST by Jess Kitting
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“Our Democracy” is Deep State code for “unopposed, unlimited, authoritarian rule by the entrenched uniparty”. This is why Barr opposes the radical progs and the conservatives in exactly the same way. Apparently he thinks the radical progs are a bigger threat right now than MAGA.


40 posted on 01/21/2023 8:46:24 AM PST by motor_racer ("We're gonna punish our enemies, and we're gonna reward our friends" - Barak Obama)
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