We have been discussing the rising threats against Trump supporters, lawyers, and officials in recent weeks from Democratic members are calling for blacklists to the Lincoln Project leading a a national effort to harass and abuse any lawyers representing the Republican party or President Trump.
Others are calling for banning those "Complicit" from college campuses while still others are demanding a "Truth and Reconciliation Commission" to "Hold Trump and his enablers accountable for the crimes they have committed." Now, Daily Beast editor-at-large Rick Wilson has added his own call for "Humiliation," "Incarceration" and even ritualistic suicides for Trump supporters in an unhinged, vulgar column.
"Remember, the Trump GOP is shorn of all ideological and philosophical pretense, and even when Trump leaves office, it's not over. 'His cultists' reign of terror will shape elected GOP members as long as he and his foul spawn walk the earth unpunished. Only exposure, pain, humiliation, and incarceration will lead to a moment of reckoning for the GOP. It should start at the top and work down from there."
Just as I recently criticized Trump counsel Joe diGenova for his rhetoric about drawing and quartering Chris Krebs, I will assume that Wilson is not seriously calling for ritualistic suicides.
He is clearly calling for retaliation against Trump supporters as the Lincoln Project has carried out in its campaign.
Others like Elie Mystal, The Nation's justice correspondent, have called for a "Truth and Reconciliation Commission" to investigate "[a]ll of these moral and ethical failures and that's before we get into the actual statutory crimes potentially committed by Trump, his administration, his enablers, and his family.
These writers continue to write as if the nation is now unified in rejecting the policies and priorities of the Trump Administration.
Wednesday, December 2, 2020
Daily Beast Editor Calls For “Humiliation” and “Incarceration” For Trump Supporters
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