Some in the GOP parrot far-right talk of a coming civil war

[Zorro]

Some Republicans are mimicking the rhetoric far-right extremists and white supremacists have used for years.

War-like imagery has begun spreading in Republican circles after the attack on the U.S. Capitol by a mob of President Donald Trump’s supporters, with some elected officials and party leaders rejecting pleas to tone down rhetoric calling for a second civil war.

In northwestern Wisconsin, the chairman of the St. Croix County Republican Party was forced to resign Friday after refusing for a week after the siege to remove an online post urging followers to “prepare for war.” The incoming chairwoman of the Michigan GOP and her husband, a state lawmaker, have joined a conservative social media site created after the Capitol riot where the possibility of civil war is a topic.

Phil Reynolds, a member of the GOP central committee in California’s Santa Clara County, appeared to urge on insurrectionists on social media during the Jan. 6 attack, declaring on Facebook: “The war has begun. Citizens take arms! Drumroll please….. Civil War or No Civil War?”

The heightened rhetoric mimics language far-right extremists and white supremacists have used for years, and it follows a year of civil unrest over the killing of George Floyd, a Black man, by a white police officer and its links to systemic racism. Some leftists have used similar language, which Republicans have likened to advocating a new civil war.

https://www.tampabay.com/news/nation-world/2021/01/16/some-in-the-gop-parrot-far-right-talk-of-a-coming-civil-war/

Republicans have been agitating for civil war for years, even before American fascist Pat Buchanan brayed “Do not wait for orders from headquarters! Mount up, everybody, and ride to the sound of the guns!”

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1. Yep, they've been doing it a long time. But now we can use it against them :)

The last week's events have been so out in the open that people can't look away anymore. And we no longer sound crazy when we accurately describe them. We can use this against the Republican party for many many years.