Well, the Democrats have gone from "resistance" to "obstruction" to "destruction". They got a lot of help from the media.
Today, a disturbed gunman shot four Republican congressmen after allegedly asking them if they were Republicans.
The gunman was reported to be a Bernie Sanders supporter, and appeared as a supporter during the Sanders campaign. Sanders lost his bid to be the Democratic presidential runner in part because of subterfuge by the Democratic National Committee which supported his rival Hillary Clinton.
After recent rhetoric by many ranking Democrats that "people will die" or "people will go bankrupt" I suppose it will be argued by Progressives that the gunman was acting in self defense.
It was reported in the Wall Street Journal that on a "Facebook page that appeared to belong to Mr. Hodgkinson, he wrote on March 22 that “Trump is a Traitor. Trump has destroyed our democracy. It’s time to destroy Trump & Co.” On the same day, he signed a petition calling for the “legal removal” of president and vice president."
The shooter was also active in the "Occupy" movement and was interviewed while protesting at one in 2011. according to news media.
Democratic lawmakers have actively been calling for "resistance" and "obstruction" and many have gone to their constituents and inflamed them with statements that "People will die" as a consequence of Republican efforts to correct the failings of the Affordable Care Act. Remember, after record tax collection years, the Obama administration had to borrow an addition $10 Trillion to pay the bills for all of the freebies and entitlements they tossed out.
It has been reported that on May 4 Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren tweeted “Families will go bankrupt. People will die,”
Democratic Rep. David Cicilline, D-R.I., argued on May 4 from the House floor before the vote that “tens of thousands of Americans will die if this bill passes." “That's a fact," he also said. This too was widely reported in the media.
Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch even weighed in in a video“It has been people, individuals who have banded together, ordinary people who simply saw what needed to be done and came together and supported those ideals who have made the difference. They’ve marched, they’ve bled and yes, some of them died. This is hard. Every good thing is. We have done this before. We can do this again.” Senate Democrats posted this as "inspirational">
Now we are to believe all of this was mere rhetoric and hyperbole. Some Democrats now hide behind the statement "what we said was simply metaphoric".
No it wasn't and it isn't.
This is a war and the Democrats have put a lot of fear into people.
In a country in which 3% are supposedly certifiably insane, and 10% are borderline or have serious mental issues, I suggest that what the Democrats are doing is calling to their base to move to violence.
Former Democratic Alexandria mayor Bill Euille told The Washington Post that the shooter,
“He was a very friendly person,” That same Washington Post has adopted “Democracy Dies in Darkness” as its slogan.
Frightened, angry people can kill. Here's a photo of the shooter, who was "a friendly person" and likely very concerned about his personal well being.
