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Monday 22nd of July 2024
Dead-in-the-heads
So, you got a group there,
a lynching mob,
so let them do their job and, boy,
we're ready to knock the heck out of you
with our [whose?] report,
which will be authoritative.
Rudy Giuliani,
comparing Mueller's investigators to
a lynch mob for doing what the law
obligates them to do – investigate
Russian interference in American elections
and posible obstruction of justice by Trump
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Free speech
Get him out.
Try not to hurt him.
If you do, I'll defend you in court.
Donald Trump,
telling his supporters
to remove a critic from his rally,
February 29, 2016, Warren, MI
and elsewhere
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Impeachment
Try to impeach him [Trump], just try it.
You will have a spasm of violence
in this country, an insurrection,
like you've never seen.
The people will not
stand for impeachment.
A politician that votes for it
would be endangering their own life.
Rober Stone
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Mob bosses say
IF YOU GO AFTER ME,
I'M COMIG AFTER YOU!
Donald “Orange Don” Trump,
a.k.a. “The Defendant,”
@realDonaldTrump Aug 04, 2023 – 4:49 PM
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Mob violence
I think her bodyguards
should drop all weapons.
I think they should disarm.
Immediately.
Let's see what happens to her.
Take their guns away, O.K.
It'll be very dangerous.
Donald Trump,
again invoking the possibility of
assassination as a way to prevent
Hilllary Clinton from being elected
[without, being the chickenhawk he is,
offering to disarm his own bodyguards]
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Mob violence
If she [Hillary Clinton]
gets to pick her judges,
nothing you can do, folks.
Although the Second Amendment
people – maybe there is, I don't know.
Donald Trump,
suggesting gun rights supporters
take matters into their own hands
if Hillary Clinton is elected President
and gets to choose Supreme Court judges
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Mob violence
If you see someone
getting ready to throw a tomato,
knock the crap out of them.
I promise you
I will pay for the legal fees.
Donald Trump,
February 1, 2016, Cedar Rapids, IA
and elsewhere
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Mob violence
In the good old days,
they'd rip him out of that seat so fast,
but today everybody's politically correct.
Our country's going to hell with
being politcally correct.
Donald Trump,
February 26, 2016, Oklahoma City, OK
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Mob violence
Isn't this more fun
than a regular boring rally?
To me, it's fun.
Donald Trump,
after having his private security force
physically remove protesters from his rally
and encouraging supporters to help them
and to drown out protesters by chanting
“Trump Trump Trump” or “USA USA USA”
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Public discourse
Following Trump's victory,
an ancient Greek term suddenly
suddenly re-entered English usage:
demophobia
– literally fear of the mob.
What if conveys is cold feet
about democracy.
…
The Trump era's changing vocabulary
also includes a word of more recent
coinage:
oikophobia
, literally
an aversion to home surroundings.
In reality, it means fear of your own
people – the opposite of xenophobia.
Edward Luce,
The Retreat of Western Liberalism
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Racism
If he invited me to a public hanging,
I'd be on the front row.
Cindy Hyde-Smith,
2018 Republican candidate
for Senator from Mississippi,
where 539 blacks were lynched
between 1882 and 1968,
to a supporter at a campaign stop
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Racists say
If it needs lynching to protect
women's dearest possession
from the ravening human beasts,
then I say lynch a thousand times a week.
Rebecca Latimer Felton,
Congress's last former slave owner,
sworn in as Senator from Georgia in 1922,
when she was nearly 88 years old
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State of the union
The Trump movement was always
authoritarian and illiberal. It indulged
periodically in the rhetoric of violence.
Trump himself chafed against
the restraints of law.
But what the United States did not have
before 2020 was a large national movement
willing to justify mob violence
to claim political power.
Now it does.
David Frum, The Atlantic, July 13, 2021
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Trumpists say
If he invited me to a public hanging,
I'd be on the front row.
Cindy Hyde-Smith,
2018 Republican candidate
for Senator from Mississippi,
where 539 blacks were lynched
between 1882 and 1968,
to a supporter at a campaign stop
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