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The American left has its own Tea Party, and it’s coming for Donald Trump
Quartz ^ | September 16, 2017 | Max de Haldevang

Posted on 09/16/2017 9:59:13 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Tom MacArthur’s town-hall meeting should have been uneventful. It was May and MacArthur, a Republican congressman, had come home to New Jersey to talk to constituents, having won re-election with a hefty majority less than a year earlier. Normally, at such an event, he might have expected to field a couple of dozen idiosyncratic questions, trot out some polite replies, wrap up after an hour or so, and go home for an easy night’s sleep.

But it didn’t quite pan out like that.

Six days earlier, the House of Representatives had voted to pass the American Health Care Act, which was predicted to leave millions of Americans without health insurance. MacArthur had written the amendment that had revived the bill, after an earlier version failed to garner enough support. Now, nearly a thousand furious protesters carrying mock-ups of their would-be gravestones were outside the town-hall venue to greet him. The few allowed inside spent five full hours savaging him. “You have been the single greatest threat to my family in the entire world,” one man screamed, in a 10-minute tirade that soon flew around the liberal internet....

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TOPICS: Campaign News; Issues; Parties; State and Local
KEYWORDS: antifa; congress; democrats; leftistteaparty; teaparty; trump
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Those terrorists are as much Tea Party as AstroTurf is to actual, living grass.


21 posted on 09/17/2017 4:33:20 AM PDT by Noamie
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To: jmaroneps37

If there ever is another civil war or large insurrection Antifa, Black Lives Matter, ANSWER, Black Panthers and their related groups won’t last a week. You heard it here first.


22 posted on 09/17/2017 4:34:24 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: Vision Thing

The Pee Pea Party? ;)


23 posted on 09/17/2017 4:53:36 AM PDT by Boomer (Can we ban the name associated with the initials HRC for a decade please?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Should that an investigative reporting team look into this and you’ll find it is made up of state and federal employees. No one is checking. No one else has that much time on their hands for that kind of activity.


24 posted on 09/17/2017 5:37:06 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

AntiFa with a better wardrobe.


25 posted on 09/17/2017 5:45:11 AM PDT by kanawa (Trump Loves a Great Deal)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Left Tea Party = Fabian Society


26 posted on 09/17/2017 10:37:17 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacted the most.)
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