Commentary
While President Trump told his supporters to “peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard,” here’s a handful of quotes from the mouths of Democrats that are far more inflammatory.
KAMALA HARRIS – When the BLM protests took place between May 26 and June 8, 2020, resulting in $2 billion in property damage, Kamala Harris, while appearing on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, she “gleefully predicted that the protests, during which rioting and looting occurred, wouldn’t end, that they shouldn’t end,” wrote Matt Margolis of PJ Media.
“They’re not going to stop,” Harris said. “They’re not going to stop,” she repeated. “This is a movement, I’m telling you. They’re not gonna stop. And everyone beware because they’re not going to stop. They’re not going to stop before Election Day. They’re not going to stop after Election Day. And everyone should take note that they’re not going to let up and they should not.”
On June 1, 2020, Harris tweeted an appeal to people “to chip in now to the Minnesota Freedom Fund to help post bail for those protesting on the ground in Minnesota.” She hasn’t expressed an interest in doing the same for those arrested in the Capitol breach.
REP. ALEXANDRA OCASIO-COTEZ – During an interview on New York’s Hot 97 in the summer of 2019, Ocasio-Cortez argued that “marginalized” communities “have no choice but to riot” in the face of injustice.
“The whole point of protesting” is to make people uncomfortable … that’s the point,” she said.
REP. NANCY PELOSI – “I just don’t know why there aren’t uprisings all over the country, and maybe there will be when people realize that this is a policy that they defend.” While covering Pelosi’s 2018 remarks, Matt Margolis of PJ Media, made note that an “uprising” was defined as a “usually localized act of popular violence in defiance usually of an established government.” Sound familiar?
Earlier this year, she said, “When you’re in the arena, you have to be ready to take a punch and you have to ready to throw a punch.”
REP. TED LIEU threatened “widespread civil unrest” if President Trump fired Mueller. Later he said people should “take to the streets” if Trump did so.
SEN CORY BOOKER tweeted in 2018 @CoryBooker told activists to “get up in the face of some congresspeople.” Republicans, of course.
HILLARY CLINTON tweeted @HillaryClinton that “you can’t be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for.”
ERIC HOLDER @EricHolder tweeted liberal activists that Michelle Obama was wrong; “When they go low, we go high. No. No. When they go low, we kick them.”
REP. JOAQUIN CASTRO – In 2019, when the president was considering a national emergency over the then government shutdown, Castro said if he did, Democrats would “fight him in the streets.
REP MAXINE WATERS told activists @RepMaxineWaters that “God is in (sic) our side” and urged her followers to be increasingly confrontational (with) members of the Trump administration.
SEN. JOHN TESTER said that in order to take on Trump, you have to “punch him in the face.”
NOT ALL DEMOCRATS ARE CRAZED – George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley, an admitted Democrat, weighed in on his party’s decision to again vote to impeach President Trump saying it would “shred the Constitution:
“The damage by the rioting was enormous, but it will pale in comparison to the damage from the new precedent of a ‘snap impeachment’ for speech under the 1st Amendment. It would do to the Constitution what the rioters did to the Capitol: Leave it in tatters.
“While I was highly critical of the president’s remarks, he never actually called for violence or a riot. Indeed, he expressly told his followers ‘to peacefully and patriotically make you voices heard.’ Such marches are common in both federal and state capitols.”
ANOTHER FIRST-RATE COLUMNIST, Paul Bedard of the Washington Examiner, seemed to echo my January 7, 2021 blog, similar to Kimberly A. Strassel of the Wall Street Journal. Here are his thoughts:
“It didn’t have to end this way, but even many of President Trump’s fans concede it was bound to happen.
“For many, his approach was understandable since he was under attack by the media, Democrats and Never Trumpers for his whole presidency.
“But this week he went too far for many with his encouraging signals to pro-Trump supporters angered by his claim that the election was robbed.”
MOVING FORWARD – While the left is contemplating efforts to remove President Trump from office prior to January 20, 2021, moving forward must be our goal, as impossible it may seem. Our agenda to make America great again, created by President Trump, cannot be forgotten or stalled.
May God continue to bless the United States of America.
