The Washington Post’s Matt Viser and Robert Costa think they’re on to something
GOP adopts midterm strategy of recasting Democratic protests as ‘an angry mob’
When thousands of furious, screaming protesters marched toward the Capitol over the weekend as Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh was confirmed, Republican staffers peered out at the scene from the windows above. They were not alarmed but elated.
Weeks ahead of the midterm elections, Republicans have cast the Trump resistance movement as “an angry mob,†a term used by many of them to describe a faceless amalgamation of forces that they say threaten the country’s order and, they hope, energize their voters.
President Trump and the GOP firmly control Congress and the White House and have massive financial and media infrastructure behind them. But in an effort to flip the midterm elections from a referendum on the unpopular president, they are casting themselves as defenders at the barricades.
In Virginia, Rep. David Brat (R) is running against the “liberal mob,†and GOP Senate candidate Corey Stewart has decried the “mob tactics†that “tried to destroy†Kavanaugh.
“When we’re out at grocery stores or at events, we’re finding swing voters are turned off by how Kavanaugh was treated,†Rep. Peter T. King (R-N.Y.) said. “Chasing senators down the hall, running up the stairs at the Capitol — we’ve been taken aback by how people have reacted to it. And we’re responding.â€
So, as they show, there were angry liberal mobs running around being angry. You had ones chasing elected representatives, like Ted Cruz and his wife, out of restaurants. The mob is threatening Senator Susan Collins to the point she now needs security protection. They get out there and take over streets and causing problems. We’ve seen the angry leftist mobs for years, going back to the Bush years, but, really got going during the Obama years. Seriously, these people are deranged. Remember the whole “screaming at the sky” thing on the one year anniversary of Trump beating Hillary using the method laid out in the Constitution?
As you read on through the article, you read example after example of what is, in fact, an angry leftist mob. But, ZOMG, Republicans are taking advantage of that to campaign!!!! It’s almost like politics are being used. Who would have though Republicans would turn the angry mob mentality of Leftists into a benefit! That never happens in politics!
Just the number of unhinged, angry, wacky things these leftists do shows that they are an angry mob.
Now, just for some whataboutism, imagine if these were angry Conservative mobs: how would they be cast?
