{"id":137292,"date":"2018-10-09T19:50:44","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T01:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/09\/beware-those-lawless-dastardly-jacobins.html"},"modified":"2018-10-09T19:50:44","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T01:50:44","slug":"beware-those-lawless-dastardly-jacobins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/09\/beware-those-lawless-dastardly-jacobins.html","title":{"rendered":"Beware Those Lawless, Dastardly Jacobins!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apparently I'm part of an Angry Left-Wing Lawless Violent Mob. Though it's also quite possible that I'm Being Paid By George Soros (oh, I wish). Does that mean I'm a Soulless Mercenary Thug instead of an Angry Left-Wing Lawless Violent Mob member?<\/p>\n

I mean, I have to assume this is true, since our President has called all Democrats violent lawless members of mobs. And his echo chamber at Fox News is shouting about it, too. So are major GOP Senators trying to pivot away from the Kavanaugh hearings.<\/p>\n

I don't suppose this is any sort of effort to perk up discouraged or disgruntled Republican (or 2016 Republican) voters to flee in terror to the polling places to Keep Those Mobs Out Of Power (because that<\/i> always works). No, surely the GOP would not turn large, noisy, peaceful protests into rhetorical mob riots for propagandistic purposes. Would they?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nRepublicans: Protesters Are an Unruly Mob — Unless They Have Guns and Support Us<\/a><\/span>
\nThe GOP’s attacks on anti-Kavanaugh protesters are rooted in (authoritarian) principle: Only conservatives can legitimately exercise dissent.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Apparently I'm part of an Angry Left-Wing Lawless Violent Mob. Though it's also quite possible that I'm Being Paid By George Soros (oh, I wish). Does that mean I'm a Soulless Mercenary Thug instead of an Angry Left-Wing Lawless Violent Mob member? 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