I'm not willing to believe the MAGA cult would hurt one of their own until it happens. We're talking about lone shooters here. No Republican has even been fired at while they've killed Democrats and planted bombs at the DNC.
I think the most important thing isn't what they have done, it's what their OWN political leaders, and political leaders of the opposition, believe they're willing to do. Going back only to February, Eric Stalwell outright said that Republican politician friends of his are 'terrified' of even criticizing Trump due to both current and potential threats and the resulting potential for harm as well as requirement for 24-hour protection details for themselves and their families.
You can say 'lone gunman' all you want, but when Trump and the entire government apparatus around him are directly naming you on television and on social media as a problem to hundreds of millions of people, it only takes 1 lone gunman hearing it to blow your fucking head off, right? I know -I- would take death threats to myself and my family pretty seriously.
Trump's cultists have targeted Democrats specifically because that's what Trump told them to do. That's who Trump is telling him is the 'enemy' right now. Do you think for a second that if Trump went on TV and said 'someone needs to do something about Rick Scott - he's a traitor and an enemy of America' that Rick Scott would sleep well that night? Hell, do you really think no one would even contemplate trying to kill him?
Also remember that while 'we' see the teams, Politicians mostly all see themselves as ONE team. They're all part of the dog and pony show together to keep us held down. They all think of themselves as better than the rest of us -- the American Nobility. If low-class plebs are willing to kill a Democrat, in their eyes, they're willing to kill Republicans as well. It has nothing to do with political boundaries to them. It's class warfare that truly scares them. Democrats having their heads blown off by angry Republicans is, I guarantee you, just as scary to most Republicans. Because they know they could be next at any moment once the gloves are off and 'killing politicians' is on the table.
They would've killed anyone they got their hands on that day.
I actually don't believe that even a little. Several MAGA politicians were at the Capitol Riot and pretend to not have done anything wrong to this day; such as Jo Rae Perkings and Jeff Zink. Tina Forte live-streamed from the riot. Mark Finchem was not only present on the steps of the Capitol during the riot, but I believe was actively egging people on. I could go on, because there's like a dozen others. But the reality is that the MAGA Cultists had a list of people they wanted to kill. People that Trump had called out by name. Don't give them the out -they have used in their own defense- of just being a mob caught up in the excitement of what was happening, without an actual goal or plan.
They went there with intentions. They had lists of politicians Trump had called out by name as a danger to him and his vision for the country; Pelosi, and PENCE. They were chanting 'Hang Mike Pence' during the riot. Trump had made comments about Pence all but calling him a traitor and hours later a gaggle of fucking morons were chanting 'Hang Mike Pence.' Don't give them the 'out' of just being a mob. They were a unified insurrection and would have killed people they viewed as Donald Trump's enemies - not just anyone that happened to be there.
All this isn't to say that the Repubs aren't, AT BEST, spineless enabling cowards. They 100% are. They will be responsible for the utter destruction of America as it was for our entire lives. But it doesn't do any good to pretend that speaking against Trump, at this point in American history, isn't a dangerous thing for his allies to do. They're just the kind of people that would rather watch America burn to the ground than put themselves in any kind of danger.
I wanna know what's in the Epstein files.
Don't we all.
