I wonder how many FR people - who were appalled when Obama told his supporters to “get in the face” of opponents - are now applauding Trump when he says he would like to punch a heckler? Probably quite a few.
Yes, Steve you are starting to get it. Only it is not “quite a few” it is basically everyone with common sense and normal emotions and not just Trump supporters. If you say that you wouldn't feel the same way in a similar situation... I question your honesty.
I have never had any desire to try and “get in the face” of an Obama supporter, something which Trump has never encouraged. But if someone is inside a venue paid for by my candidate heckling, being disrupted and violent towards other people in the crowd... I haven't got any problem with someone feeling like that heckler deserves to be punched in the face. I will go on record as saying that I have no problems at all with anything that Trump said. It was an honest reaction and factually correct. He said that was how he felt, but that we don't do it that way anymore.
“I wonder how many FR people - who were appalled when Obama told his supporters to “get in the face†of opponents - are now applauding Trump when he says he would like to punch a heckler? Probably quite a few.”
Can you not see the difference between the two scenarios you describe?
One is a private rally bought and paid for by Trump, the attendees of which are his guests. If someone mouths off at a party of yours are not entitled to bust them in the mouth?
The Obama scenario is someone coming to your front door or stopping you in public to “get in your face”.
The two are not comparable.
Edit: “If someone mouths off at a party of yours are YOU not entitled to bust them in the mouth?”