Tu quoque.Brian Peacock wrote:Didn't Trump spend four years ramping up the contumely disputing the legitimacy of Obama's presidency by questioning his citizenship? Are we to assume that we wouldn't be dealing with exactly the same thing, and probably a lot worse, if the glove was on the other hand - particularly given what Trump and supporters were saying during the campaign?
We're talking about what the Democrats are doing and saying now. So, anything else is irrelevant.
But declaring the President elect illegitimate because he was installed into office by Vladimir Putin is supporting trust in government and democracy....Boston Globe: 2016/10/15 wrote:...At a time when trust in government is at a low point, Trump is actively stoking fears that a core tenet of American democracy is also in peril: that you can trust what happens at the ballot box.
Clinton operatives were caught on audio/video talking about busing people into the polls and doing whatever it takes.... they were fired as a result.His supporters here said they plan to go to their local precincts to look for illegal immigrants who may attempt to vote. They are worried that Democrats will load up buses of minorities and take them to vote several times in different areas of the city. They’ve heard rumors that boxes of Clinton votes are already waiting somewhere.
And now the Democrats are engaging in violence and talking about assassination, and planning to forcibly disrupt the inauguration. Is that "fantastical and unhinged?"
And if Trump doesn’t win, some are even openly talking about violent rebellion and assassination, as fantastical and unhinged as that may seem.
Hey, does that mean the Democrats should do the same? The Democrats are all about civility and respect, right?
“If she’s in office, I hope we can start a coup. She should be in prison or shot. That’s how I feel about it,” Dan Bowman, a 50-year-old contractor, said of Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee. “We’re going to have a revolution and take them out of office if that’s what it takes. There’s going to be a lot of bloodshed. But that’s what it’s going to take. . . . I would do whatever I can for my country.”
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He then placed a Trump mask on his face and posed for pictures.
Trump’s campaign has taken a sharp turn toward such dark warnings in recent days. He says he is a victim of conspiracies, portrays himself as a martyr to the cause of the right wing, and is stoking anger in advance of what may be a defeat on Nov. 8.
Trump has suggested that the Secret Service protecting Clinton should be disarmed and “see what happens to her,” and that “Second Amendment people” could take matters into their own hands if she wins and appoints judges who support gun control....
https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politi ... story.html
It's funny that this was "fantastical and unhinged" when Trump had little to no chance of winning. After he won, the Democrats flipped a lid.