The volcano rumbles but the left can’t hear it

WaPo ^ | 10-01-2018 | Hugh Hewitt

[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.

[M-cubed]

there is NEVER glory in war...when you're in it.....

Do you want to go to the typing pool or the front lines?.....

Think that over carefully before you commit it to writing.....

God Bless My FRiend...

[tarheelswamprat]

And you NEVER send a man out and then fail to support him when he is under fire. Especially this kind of heavy fire. Not unless your last name is Clinton or Obama.

Or Bush.

[central_va]

Look, if you can’t beat DC politically secede from it. Secession is the ultimate trump card. No pun intended.