A U.S. Senator's Veiled Threat Is Scrubbing the "Semi-" Off the Semi-Fascism
A U.S. Senator's Veiled Threat Is Scrubbing the "Semi-" Off the Semi-Fascism
Rodeo clown gangsterism is a weird look for a party that claims to be about law and order.
By Charles P. Pierce
It’s time for Lindsey Graham to take the rest of the year off. Because his relentless sycophancy toward the former president* clearly has poisoned his mind and it is now a danger to the public order....
Remember how the Republicans all now have a regularly scheduled cow about how Rep. Maxine Waters threatened to bring on armageddon if Derek Chauvin walked for the murder of George Floyd? Here’s a U.S. senator cosplaying the lost Piranha Brother from his perch at the height of power. The only saving grace is that it’s Lindsey Graham, so that makes the whole thing completely laughable because Lindsey Graham is the single-most ridiculous person in American public life. (Marco Rubio is coming up fast along the rail, but he will probably dwindle into insubstantiality long before they get down to the wire.) Graham's relationship to El Caudillo del Mar-A-Lago has gone from largely spurned devotee to something akin to the role of Renfield at Castle Dracula. Now, he’s sent out to be some sort of half-assed consigliere. These people are worse at being mobsters than they are at being politicians.
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Those of us who remember to our everlasting horror the last two months of the 2016 presidential campaign also remember the evident schism between FBI Director James Comey and certain personnel in the New York FBI office. (And before anyone comes at me about impugning the integrity of FBI field offices, remember that I’m from Boston and lived through the corruption of that city’s field office that arose from the devil’s bargain Agent Zip Connolly made with Whitey Bulger.) There were reliable reports that certain NYC agents were inveterate Clinton-haters and whose threats regarding the contents of Anthony Weiner’s laptop forced Comey to chicken out and write the letter to the House that leaked on October 28 and probably turned the whole campaign around...
If the threat of extralegal violence is going to be the defense of last resort, not even Graham’s rodeo clown gangster persona is going to make it less barbaric. If the people at whom Graham aimed his threat fold under this pressure, or if a certain judge in Florida indulges Trump's legal sand trap, then the threat to the republic becomes real, and everyone who pretended to be offended recently by the president’s use of “semi-fascist” needs to send the White House a nice fruit basket to apologize. Maybe Sen. Josh Hawley can, you know, run out and buy a bunch.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a41022195/lindsey-graham-riots-in-the-streets/
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