Ed KilgoreVerified account @ed_kilgore Veteran Democratic wonk, political analyst, cracker expat; worked for 3 governors, 1 senator, two DC think tanks; now political columnist for New York Magazine.
Posted on 03/26/2019 5:11:05 PM PDT by Libloather
My first real understanding of the conservative obsession with the personal destruction of Hillary Rodham Clinton came in Des Moines, on the eve of the 2016 Iowa caucuses. At a Ted Cruz rally I noticed about half the attendees wearing pins that read “Hillary for Prison,” featuring a cartoon depiction of the former secretary of State behind bars. By the time Donald Trump won the nomination to face Clinton in the general election, the rank-and-file Republican hate frenzy toward this relatively conventional center-left Democrat metastasized to become a major feature of campaign rallies, with “Lock Her Up” chants providing a steady drumbeat to the GOP candidate’s own bombastic attacks on his opponent.
After Trump won his unlikely election victory and Clinton largely receded from public view, claims from his supporters that she, not Trump, deserved to be investigated by the FBI and the Justice Department regularly arose alongside every new allegation of malfeasance by the president or his campaign. Right on through the midterm elections, every time Trump mentioned his former opponent at public events the same old “Lock Her Up” cries quickly emerged.
As pathological as the phenomenon may seem, it’s not surprising that the first thought many MAGA folk had after Robert Mueller decided not to pursue further prosecutions in the Russia collusion case was to demand a fresh investigation of Hillary Clinton and her alleged responsibility for the Steele dossier that many of them blamed for the entire “witch hunt” against Trump. As usual, arch-sycophant Lindsey Graham was on the case, talking about turning the tables in Trump’s presence at a fundraising dinner shortly after the news broke of Mueller’s decision:
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To make sure her crimes never happen again, dumbass. Oh, and lock her up.
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Same ploy the muslims use. They attack then when their target responds they play the victim. The only way for that to stop is no fall for the ploy and crush them.
I love it! They’re so cute.
Ed, Hillary is a criminal.
We need her immediately arrested.
Forget locking her up.
She deserves to be hanged.
Hillary obsession? Wow, that’s news. How about Hillary’s obsession with blaming Trump-Russia for her loss. And Going into three years of collusion obsession in the media?
I call projection.
Ed KilgoreVerified account @ed_kilgore Veteran Democratic wonk, political analyst, cracker expat; worked for 3 governors, 1 senator, two DC think tanks; now political columnist for New York Magazine.
Because she’s a criminal.
They ALWAYS use projection. Ignore and proceed!
The author is typical liberal/progressive.
It just HAS to be an emotionally driven, personal animus.
It can’t have anything to do with the Rule of Law.
He’d do well to understand the Rule of Law is the essential, singularly most important issue for all conservatives and those who wish to preserve civilization.
Because without it, conservatives will have to kill all the liberals/progressives in order to survive.
And conservatives have been making ready for that eventuality.
Seized.
Pounced.
Red meat to the base.
Angry.
Dark.
-PJ
He looks like a pedophile.
What, exactly, can a renewed vendetta against HRC accomplish for Trump and the GOP at this point?IOW, what difference does it make at this point?...Where have we heard that before?
I call dibs.
The road to Russia runs right through Hillary.
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