This I believe: if bullies and criminals are caught on video threatening violence or actually
committing crimes and they are not punished, they will repeat the same acts or worse and other wannabes will join them.
Laws not enforced and penalties never imposed are worse than useless because they permit bad people to equate wrong with right and unlawful with lawful.
McCarthy and Taylor-Greene should be arrested and charged with using threats to impede the Select Committee's invesigation and Cawthorn should be expelled from Congress for encouraging armed attacks on political adversaries.
"Mere trespass" at the US Capitol on January 6th should mean prison time for even those without prior records since the trespass was in furtherance of a pre-planned attempt to overthrow the government of the United States of America.
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I thought it was impossible to expel them. Only the voters of their own district can take action by recalling them. This almost never happens because their 2-year term is up before the recall can take place, in most cases.
I'd love it if there were an expedient way to get rid of them. But I don't think there is.
It's usually part of a long standing pattern of abusive behavior that gets them to this point. And the worst part is social media is amplifying all of people's worst behaviors. People are being assholes just to get likes on Facebook. So much that they elected a leader who is just like them - a guy who said some absolutely horrible things on social media just to get likes. The MAGA movement attracts these people. It's getting scary out there. 
