WaPo writer Dana Milbank reminds us what we're dealing with in the Malignant Loser's party:
"Poll after poll shows about 10 percent of the American public believes violence against the government is justified at this moment. Among Republicans, and particularly Republican men, the figure is substantially higher.
And this was before the Republican National Committee decided it would officially decree that violence is 'legitimate political discourse.' Among the Jan. 6 activities so justified:
Blinding police officers with bear spray.
Throwing rocks, bottles, furniture and incendiary devices at them.
Gouging their eyes.
Beating them with flagpoles, sticks and bullhorns.
Punching, kicking and dragging them down stairs.
Tasing them and hurling a fire extinguisher at them.
Smashing windows and doors.
Carrying zip ties onto the Senate floor.
Ransacking desks and offices.
And all this with murder on their lips.
Now, the Republican National Committee, the official leadership of the GOP, has embraced this unspeakable violence as legitimate discourse. It’s an absurd euphemism — and it points to another one.
To call a person who endorses violence against the duly elected government a 'Republican' is itself Orwellian. More accurate words exist for such a person. One of them is 'fascist.'”
Tune in to any documentary about the rise of Mussolini's fascism or Hitler's Nazism and you'll notice unnerving similarities. Past time to call it what it is, and gird against it.
