"If...willing to come after you inside Capitol-what will they do when you're at home w-your kids?"

[kpete]

The Atlantic has a very good profile of freshman Rep. Peter Meijer (R-MI), in which he describes what he saw during the Capitol insurrection:

“On the House floor, moments before the vote, Meijer approached a member who appeared on the verge of a breakdown. He asked his new colleague if he was okay. The member responded that he was not; that no matter his belief in the legitimacy of the election, he could no longer vote to certify the results, because he feared for his family’s safety.”

Said Meijer: “Remember, this wasn’t a hypothetical. You were casting that vote after seeing with your own two eyes what some of these people are capable of. If they’re willing to come after you inside the U.S. Capitol, what will they do when you’re at home with your kids?”

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/01/peter-meijer-freshman-republican-impeach/620844/

[pandr32]

1. Mob tactics

[Elessar Zappa]

2. Democrats get threatened all the time

yet they don’t give in to the maga-mobs. Republicans need to grow a spine or resign.

[bottomofthehill]

3. This is what terror is

violence or the threat of violence used as a weapon of intimidation or coercion.

Members of Congress often leave their family’s behind when they come to DC or if they moved the family to DC, they leave them when returning to the district. The domestic terrorists have proven that no place is out of bounds. They are right to be worried, these people are fucking nuts.

[Progressive Jones]

4. Man up, or find another job. nt