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The volcano rumbles but the left can’t hear it
WaPo ^ | 10-01-2018 | Hugh Hewitt

Posted on 10/02/2018 8:48:03 AM PDT by NRx

...But some seem to welcome a slide in that direction. “Tell me again why we shouldn’t confront Republicans where they eat, where they sleep, and where they work until they stop being complicit in the destruction of our democracy,” tweeted Ian Millhiser, justice editor at ThinkProgress.

“Because it is both wrong & supremely dangerous,” replied Georgetown Law professor Randy Barnett. “When one side denies the legitimacy of good faith disagreement over policy — as well as over constitutional principle — the other side will eventually reciprocate. Neither a constitutional republic nor a democracy can survive that.”

Princeton’s much-admired political theorist Robert P. George said of the exchange: “Randy Barnett drops a major truth bomb in response to an especially foolish and irresponsible tweet. We’re already in the orange zone of bitterness and hatred of citizens toward fellow citizens. We’re about to enter the red zone. This is how faction destroys democratic republics.”

The daily ratcheting-up of rhetoric is driving people away from ordinary political conversation. It is too freighted with potential for disproportionate responses to talk candidly about such things as one’s views of the Kavanaugh hearings. The intentional release of senators’ home addresses by someone there is reason to believe is a Capitol Hill staffer — “doxing” — is an ominous step in the Millhiser direction. It is a step back toward the tragedy that unfolded only last year when a deranged Bernie Sanders supporter tried to gun down the GOP caucus at baseball practice.

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To: NRx
“This is how faction destroys democratic republics.”

Oh come on, that’s something only dead white males like James Madison worry about.

21 posted on 10/02/2018 9:30:40 AM PDT by untenured
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To: NRx

Wow! Just....Wow!


22 posted on 10/02/2018 9:31:38 AM PDT by trebb (So many "experts" with so little experience in what they preach....even here...)
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To: NRx

When it moves shooting... I saw we country folks in fly over country just destroy the cities by blockading their roadways, keeping the trains and trucks out, and starving them into submission - it those two measures take longer than 7 days, cut their utilities. Those bastards tax the countryside and bring the money into the capitals and big cities for free wifi, culture, and personal comfort and I can’t even park my farm tractor without paying 20 bucks a day for a space.


23 posted on 10/02/2018 9:37:16 AM PDT by Jumper
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To: Jumper

Is the media camper out in front of Kavanaugh’s house? Does he have security detail?


24 posted on 10/02/2018 9:42:38 AM PDT by Oldexpat (C)
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To: jonascord

“Ditches full of Socialist bodies, while satisfying, will destroy the Republic.”

I disagree. Cut out the infection and cauterize the wound.


25 posted on 10/02/2018 9:46:09 AM PDT by The Toll
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To: NRx

All I can say is...

Don’t shoot first...

And don’t stop first.


26 posted on 10/02/2018 9:49:18 AM PDT by ExGeeEye (For dark is the suede that mows like a harvest.)
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To: NRx

Every Democrat is a violent totalitarian thug.


27 posted on 10/02/2018 9:55:53 AM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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To: NRx

Speak of civil war with great care. Along with massive loss of life, it may result in the permanent banishment of freedom and peace.


28 posted on 10/02/2018 9:57:09 AM PDT by lurk
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To: lurk

+1


29 posted on 10/02/2018 9:58:12 AM PDT by NRx (A man of integrity passes his father's civilization to his son, without selling it off to strangers.)
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To: NRx

A deranged Bernie Sanders supporter??? A G D Demorat!!!


30 posted on 10/02/2018 10:15:17 AM PDT by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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To: The Toll

Totally agree, Toll! Very satisfying to see full ditches and what’s let over will repopulate with the right kind of people. Leftists are completely incapable of rational thoughts and living amongst civilization. Most useless vermin on earth. We don’t need them.


31 posted on 10/02/2018 10:16:05 AM PDT by Maskot (soPut every dem/lib in prison...like yesterday!!!)
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To: M-cubed

Forgive me Lord.....I’m almost looking forward to that last part.......Ive about had enough of them....*spit*

______________

You will need forgiveness.

I would not want to call down Rwanda on our country.

And that is how it will be Rwanda.


32 posted on 10/02/2018 10:16:25 AM PDT by Chickensoup ( Leftists fascists today plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives soon)
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To: NRx
“Randy Barnett drops a major truth bomb in response to an especially foolish and irresponsible tweet. We’re already in the orange zone of bitterness and hatred of citizens toward fellow citizens. We’re about to enter the red zone. This is how faction destroys democratic republics.”

YES< BUT that's what CommieFa wants. They've been hitting conservative boards for years trying to gin up violence... it's part of THEIR plan... None of the hate they're directing at us is an accident. They do it on purpose.

33 posted on 10/02/2018 10:23:45 AM PDT by GOPJ ( <img src=”https://i.imgur.com/li3mn5N.jpg";></img>)
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To: Sans-Culotte

Why does the author think it’s a step back toward the shooting. It’s simply going further forward on the same track.


34 posted on 10/02/2018 10:34:34 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: billyboy15

It happened before.

http://www.ushistory.org/us/31c.asp

http://www.ushistory.org/us/31.asp

Yet here the Republic stands.


35 posted on 10/02/2018 10:37:13 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: M-cubed

I’m by no means looking forward to it ... I am, however, hoping to live long enough to see the end of it.

But not counting on it.


36 posted on 10/02/2018 10:50:20 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: M-cubed; Travis McGee
Here's a likely description of what you're looking forward to.


37 posted on 10/02/2018 11:10:36 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: The Toll
"I disagree. Cut out the infection and cauterize the wound."

Once you start inserting "wiggle room" into the Constitution, it's hard to pry it out.

While my emotional side agrees with you, that piles of treasonous bodies would be intrinsically attractive, my logic says that liquidating all democrats, which would slide the mean of the IQ curve 50% to the right, would not cure the problem, just kick the can down the road.

Stupids will just create a different, improved moron.

38 posted on 10/02/2018 11:37:44 AM PDT by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: Sans-Culotte

How did it get written by RINO Hugh Hewitt?


I used to see Graham as a RINO.


39 posted on 10/02/2018 11:41:35 AM PDT by cuban leaf
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To: NRx

“The Rosenbergs and Alger Hiss didn’t make Hollywood screenwriters traitors”

No, they did that all on their own. (See “Hollywood Party.)


40 posted on 10/02/2018 12:13:54 PM PDT by dsc (Our system of government cannot survive one-party control of communications.)
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