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David Brooks: We're Not Going To See Physical Violence On Election Night, We Will See "Psychological Violence"
RCP video ^ | 9-26-2020 | Ian Schwartz

Posted on 09/26/2020 10:00:32 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot

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BROOKS: ".... Yes, I was in a call, a conference call, with a bunch of scholars and political observers yesterday, and we all said, how scared are you, from one to five? And we were pretty much at 4.5. Some people were at nine and 10.

I have never been more pessimistic about where this country is than I am right now, I mean, in my whole life. We have had a bad few years with the social fabric fraying. We have had a president ripping us to top from the — ripping us apart from the top....

And I think he (Mark Shields) makes the core point. I mean, the two moments that I think I'm most afraid about is, one, election night, when we're sitting there and it looks like Trump is ahead, and what that psychology does to the country ....

And one of the things we have learned is that our system depends on the goodwill of the players involved. And if that goodwill isn't there, then the spiral of accusation and animosity and enmity — I don't think we're going to see physical violence, but we will see a level of psychological violence that we just haven't seen since 1865.


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To: Sir Napsalot

And just how would “psychological violence” be different from what we have endured for years from progressives, dims, commies,
et al?


21 posted on 09/26/2020 10:30:16 AM PDT by Let's Roll ("You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality" -- Ayn Rand)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Dear David Brooks & Friends:

On a scale of one to five how much do traditional Americans hate you and your type? Answer: ‘A Thousand’...

Sincerely
Trump supporters


22 posted on 09/26/2020 10:30:48 AM PDT by GOPJ (Democrats stopped burning, rioting & looting when polls showed it wasn't popular with voters.)
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To: Sir Napsalot
PBS and NPR should be defunded with fed money. Let wealthy Leftists fund their pet fantasy projects.

Amen to that...

23 posted on 09/26/2020 10:33:03 AM PDT by GOPJ (Democrats stopped burning, rioting & looting when polls showed it wasn't popular with voters.)
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To: hoagy62

I think the rioters should be more fearful of “Mr. & Mrs. Normal America” than they presently are. I saw online that BLM stands for burn, loot and murder, and that is getting very close to actual truth, and I don’t think “Normal Americans” will put up with much more.


24 posted on 09/26/2020 10:33:12 AM PDT by kiltie65
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To: Sir Napsalot; 100American; al baby; Allegra; BufordP; dp0622; EveningStar; Gefn; GunsareOK; ...
A-doy, we're already experiencing psychological violence, Brooksie, since the Marxist Dumpster Fire Revolution (basically Stages 1 through 4 of a basic Marxis Revolution) is basically an information op (see Kurt Schlichter), amazingly enough.

So more psychological violence on Nov. 3 and 4? Okee-dokee; by then, I'll probably be comfortably numbed to it.

DANG!

25 posted on 09/26/2020 10:34:02 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (The Constitution guarantees the States protection against insurrection. Act now, Mr. President!)
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To: Sir Napsalot
"...I have never been more pessimistic.."

Anything we can do to help intensify your emotional anguish Davey?😎

26 posted on 09/26/2020 10:37:08 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneow)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

And if I say “basically” a few more times, my hands will fall off, and my keyboard will split in two.


27 posted on 09/26/2020 10:42:57 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (The Constitution guarantees the States protection against insurrection. Act now, Mr. President!)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Does Brooks still sleep with 0bama’s “well-creased trousers” under his pillow?


28 posted on 09/26/2020 10:45:54 AM PDT by euram
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To: Sir Napsalot
...we will see a level of psychological violence that we just haven't seen since 1865...

Is that similar to saying "we on the left are going to have our minds blown away" if Trump wins?

Hmmmmm...1865. An interesting choice of year.
Big highlight...the Emancipation Proclamation.
Is he worried the people who are mentally enslaved to the Democrat party will be freed and the party (like slavery) will be a thing of the past?
Just thinking out loud here...

29 posted on 09/26/2020 10:46:40 AM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Sir Napsalot; All

Fernando and Matt Bracken were talking about this on their 9/25 live stream.


30 posted on 09/26/2020 10:53:58 AM PDT by Polynikes ( Hakkaa paalle)
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To: kiltie65
Over 187,000 Supporters Attend Trump Rallies Since Labor Day to Joe Biden’s 84...

Biden's supporters are busy burning down cities ...they don't have time for rallies. Beside looting pays more. Have Brooks and Shields considered most of the democrat base never finished high school and/or college.

31 posted on 09/26/2020 10:54:32 AM PDT by GOPJ (Democrats stopped burning, rioting & looting when polls showed it wasn't popular with voters.)
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To: freedumb2003

“ The tears CONTINUE to be delicious! Like fine old wine.”
—————
No, no, no! You don’t drink those tears - that would be an incredible waste of the world’s best gun lube. What’s wrong with you?


32 posted on 09/26/2020 11:03:57 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: Polynikes

Do you have a link for that, or at least the podcast’s site? Thanks!


33 posted on 09/26/2020 11:05:13 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: Sir Napsalot
"Fear . . . terrified . . . We have had a president ripping us to top from the — ripping us apart from the top ... "

Brooks is psychotic. It is the LEFT that is ripping this country apart, that divides people by race, that is rioting and looting and burning down buildings, and this pathological liar says that it is TRUMP who is dividing the country!!!

That is clearly the left's strategy - to create mayhem and blame it on Trump, saying as the repulsive liar Joe Biden did - that "you won't be safe in Trump's America." The left is threatening us, it could not be more obvious: "Vote for Biden, or we'll rip this country apart."
34 posted on 09/26/2020 11:10:24 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: kiltie65

“I think the rioters should be more fearful of “Mr. & Mrs. Normal America” than they presently are.”

Normal Americans are aging out. No one I know (regardless of tough talk) is going to leave their nice suburban home and wife and defend themselves against rioters. Especially now that DA’s everywhere call it murder if you are un-woke but also unwise enough to defend yourself.


35 posted on 09/26/2020 11:17:53 AM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: Sir Napsalot

“I don’t think we’re going to see physical violence, but we will see a level of psychological violence that we just haven’t seen since 1865.”

Yep,
Democrats havent been this angry since Lincoln freed the slaves!


36 posted on 09/26/2020 11:21:49 AM PDT by Samurai_Jack (Democrats are not the enemy, Republicans are not your friends. We're on our own folks!)
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To: Sir Napsalot

I want to see more videos of distraught Left-wingers weeping and wailing like those in ‘16.

On a more serious note: the Left equating how we make them feel with violence is a route for them to justify violence against us.


37 posted on 09/26/2020 11:23:46 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Steve_Seattle
That is why the expression on Alisyn Camerota's face is priceless, when her own CNN’s “New Day” had a bunch of potential voters telling her that

"... the president is bringing us together" and "(the president)’s doing a phenomenal job and he has my vote. Absolutely".

Note: Alisyn Camerota tried real hard to not have an expression/reaction to what those voters said, but she couldn't help a few twitches here and there. (Links can be found here. I also saw it elsewhere but forgot exactly the site.)

38 posted on 09/26/2020 11:30:26 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = USSR; Journ0List + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey)
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To: philman_36

WOW, the NYT has become a total rag with all this “worrying, scaring, warning that their worthless male (?)
reporters are experiencing.

What a bunch of cowards safely ensconced in a Yellow crap newspaper with NO credibility.


39 posted on 09/26/2020 11:39:31 AM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: Sir Napsalot

Hate to say this, we will be lucky if there is a clear winner by December 15, 2020 much less Nov 3rd. There might be a person ahead in the Electoral College on Nov 3rd but this won’t be any indicator of who will be the winner.


40 posted on 09/26/2020 11:42:59 AM PDT by zaxtres
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