cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/29614051
Ocasio-Cortez took to Instagram after the Department of Homeland Security suggested they may pursue arrests of three Democratic lawmakers who partook in a protest outside of an ICE facility in Newark, New Jersey. Reps. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ), Rob Menendez (D-NJ) and LaMonica McIver (D-NJ) all attended the protest.
That’s actually kind of interesting. Will the Dems call their followers to violence if their own lives are on the line? The capitol riot may have traumatized enough of them
I think their commitment to the West Wingification of American politics and their oligarch donors would have them putting “decorum” above calling for violence no matter what happens.
If they can’t learn from repeated election losses, they aren’t going to learn how to save their country any other way, either.
They’ll flee to Ottawa, form a government in exile, and wonder why they aren’t getting NED money
A guy shot up a pizza parlor he thought was a secret Democrat base. Another dude tried to kill Nancy Pelosi with a hammer, but she wasn’t there so he tried to kill her husband.
The answer is “No. Dems will do absolutely fuck all if they get Sumner Cane’d.” They will cling to civility and decorum even as bullets from ICE stormtroopers go out the back of their skulls.
Even if they weren’t, the narrative behind those attacks were “lone wolf” attacks
State violence against senators is a different thing