Republicans Want You to Think Democrats Are a "Mob"

As the country’s divisions deepn over politics and human rights, Trump and other major Republicans aim to be a wedge. The Week reports that at a Kansas Trump rally, the President said, “You don’t hand matches to an arsonist and you don’t give power to an angry left-wing mob—and that’s what they’ve become,” when talking about Democrats. He’s attempting to discredit everything the opposing party has done and will do.

That’s just the start. On Oct. 7, CNN wrote about six separate occasions in which Republicans publicly called Democrats a “mob.” Senator Mitch McConnell said Republicans “refused to be intimidated by the mob of people” who he thought were attacking Brett Kavanaugh and his party members. Chuck Grassley said, “I hope we can say no to mob rule by voting to confirm Kavanaugh,” despite the fact that the majority of Americans wanted the opposite. That didn’t stop Senator Orrin Hatch either, though. He described the opposition as “a paid mob trying to prevent senators from doing the will of their constituents.”

These Republicans, as well as our president, want to gaslight the entire opposite side of the aisle. They forget their own slogan, it seems like. When Trump was campaigning, he constantly referred to his supporters as the silent majority and insisted that they deserved justice of some kind. Now that the majority is vocal and threatening, though, it’s a mob—a conspiracy.

Republicans Want You to Think Democrats Are a “Mob”