Editorial: 'Someone is going to get killed' if Republicans don't tone down their incitement

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

This insanity really does have to stop. Cole County Assessor Christopher Estes reflects the new attitude among Republican supporters of President Donald Trump that no inflammatory language or incitement to violence is out of bounds when it comes to advancing the myth that the election was stolen from Trump. Public officials like Estes are stifling their better judgment while publicly calling for treason trials and even the execution of anyone who dares to speak the truth that Trump lost to Joe Biden, now the president-elect, in a fair-and-square election.

Estes last week skated on the edge of issuing a thinly veiled death threat in response to a Georgia state senator’s Facebook remark debunking claims of election fraud: “What you have done is to enable a coup. Illegally removing a legally elected President. Pretty sure that is called treason. Punishable by death,” Estes posted.

Speaking to The New York Times Wednesday, Pennsylvania state Senate Majority Leader Kim Ward was blunt about the pressures she and other Republican leaders are facing. A letter circulated among Republicans in the General Assembly urging the state’s congressional delegation to reject Pennsylvania’s Electoral College votes for Biden. Ward said she was pressured to sign, adding, “If I would say to you, ‘I don’t want to do it,’ I’d get my house bombed tonight.” She didn’t appear to be joking.

It appears the nation has reached a point where post-election bitterness has turned into a call for vigilante action. Last week, Georgia election official Gabriel Sterling veered from his normal daily briefing on that state’s vote-recount process to express his anger over the threats election officials and workers have received — including against Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and his wife.

https://www.stltoday.com/opinion/editorial/editorial-someone-is-going-to-get-killed-if-republicans-dont-tone-down-their-incitement/article_e48582ff-f2d7-5652-8d09-d63bd2b59334.html

[rustysgurl]

1. Schoolyard bullies

That's what these traitors are -- schoolyard bullies who don't like to hear the word "NO" unless they are the ones saying it.

[CrispyQ]

2. Have any of the people protesting at private residences been arrested? -nt

[BigDemVoter]

4. This is EXACTLY what I've been telling my partner for the last 2 years. I have told him again and

again that these fuckers are going to foment something terrible like a mass shooting or something else equally vile. When it DOES happen, I won't be the slightest bit surprised.