This is a sitting governor, guys, so talk to me some more about how Trump is such an outlier.
“I want us to be able to fight ideologically, mentally, spiritually, economically, so that we don’t have to do it physically,” the tea party politician said in a Saturday speech at the Values Voters Summit, an annual gathering of religious conservatives. “But that may, in fact, be the case.”
Bevin said he was asked in a recent if the nation could “survive” a Clinton presidency, and he responded that it would be “possible” but at a great “price.”
“The roots of the tree of liberty are watered by what?” Bevin continued. “The blood, of who? The tyrants to be sure, but who else? The patriots. Whose blood will be shed? It may be that of those in this room. It might be that of our children and grandchildren.”
I keep seeing these idiot headlines about how we’re now living in “Trump’s America” or some crap, like this just happened, like this is new. For fuck’s sake, Republicans have been calling Democrats traitors since at least 9/11 if not the 1930s. Before the Creeping Sharia Menace and the Secret Muslim Infiltration it was the Russkies and the Commies and the Reds that Real Americans were gonna have to rise up against with full fanfare and drama.
Other Real Americans, natch, not people like this.
People rightly said when the Tea Party came around that this is where Republicans have been going for years, just louder and dumber, and we were all either ignored or ridiculed. People rightly said, when Sarah Palin was nominated as VP, that this was not just a problem with one halfbright woman, that her elevation was indicative of some pretty serious weaknesses in structure and values, and they were ignored or ridiculed.
And now we have GOP presidential nominee Trump and sitting governors of entire states calling for armed insurrection if we elect a pretty middle-of-the-road, frankly kind of boring conventional politician who will probably not change anything very profoundly. And everyone acts like that’s just a low pressure system moving in, like that’s just the weather and the way the earth turns.
America didn’t just “turn into” Trump’s America. It didn’t “become” this way all on its own. People did this to it, and other people ignored it, or went along because the numbers favored it that day, or decided they couldn’t be bothered or risk looking like dirty hippies. A thousand little decisions were made by actual people every single day and if you don’t listen to those saying hey, that and that and that and that are not going to add up to anything good, you don’t get to bitch at the rise of Cheeto Jesus and pretend you didn’t see it coming.
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So everyone is a bad guy except you.
I wonder what Gov. Bevin is talking about when he said, “It breaks my heart to think that it might be [our children’s and grandchildren’s] blood that is needed to redeem something, to reclaim something, that we through our apathy and our indifference have given away.” What is that “something”? This would seem to be something real and actual that the political media might want to ask about, instead of being so preoccupied with ersatz Republican outrage over another nothingburger.
But it’s probably just political hyperbole, and Gov. Bevin doesn’t really mean anything by it, and each and every person listening to him knows precisely what he meant, and none of them will take any rash or violent actions because of it. Or if they do, it’s just another in a long line of lone wolf operatives that nobody could possibly have foreseen coming, except some dirty fucking hippies, hallucinating with their wacky terbacky.