Trump and Violence: Where Will This Go?
As shown here, Trump has been fairly consistent in inciting his supporters to violence. Yet as crude and vulgar as these suggestions have been, until now, they really hadn’t taken on any real meaning.
At this point, of course, the Proud Boys and the rest are no longer “standing back.” It’s hard to imagine what will happen when Trump is formally removed from office, and tens of millions of hateful and heavily armed morons take to the streets to avenge their loss.
On the lighter side, we have to laugh about what Trump actually said here. “I promise you I will pay (your) legal fees??” He doesn’t pay his own bills, but he’s going to pay yours?
We all like to think that we’re objective and rational in our thinking, and that, if we were presented with sufficient evidence, we’d change even our most entrenched beliefs and admit that we’d been buffaloed. We like to think that we would put truth above our pride, regardless of how publicly humiliated we’d be in such a case.
Our new world, one that features mass adoption of conspiracy theories, forces us to consider many things for the first time. Perhaps the single most important of these is law enforcement in a society in which tens of millions of people are being called to violence by people they trust. Sure, there is the U.S. president encouraging the Proud Boys, but there also thugs in lesser positions, e.g., the white supremacist/terrorist shown here.
As shown here, when formerly state-run television network Fox News began to report that Trump lost the 2020 election, they were demoted to the “corrupt news” side of the ledger. 
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From the Boston Globe: The Texas lawsuit asking the US Supreme Court to invalidate Joe Biden’s victory has quickly become a conservative litmus test, as 106 members of Congress and multiple state attorneys general signed onto the case even as some have predicted it will fail. 
I don’t envy guys with lots of money, big cars or trophy wives.
A reader requested comments on his query at the left.
Remarkably, conservatives disapprove of the teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg, on the basis that she’s an angry child who should be in school rather than making noise about a branch of science that she doesn’t fully understand. 
I know there are people who think that extreme right-wing violence pre- and post-inauguration is a needless worry, and that the notion that this is even possible is demeaning to the garden-variety Trump supporter.
