The failed full-court press to install Republican Rep. Jim Jordan as House Speaker revealed ugly examples of how violent threats are becoming normalized inside Trump’s GOP.
According to Rep. Steve Womack of Arkansas, the strategy behind the threats is to “Attack, attack, attack.
In the run-up to that attack, members of the Proud Boys even bragged that they could dress up as Antifa.
In the next breath, however, he says that the war in Israel creates moral urgency to push through a Jim Jordan speakership.
Any sense that this was a random unhinged person without a partisan political agenda was demolished by his demand that the congressman vote for “Jim Jordan or more conservative.” This caller has explicit right-wing ideological demands.
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