GOP: The gallows party (Quentin Young - The Daily Montanan

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“I’ve said we need to build more gallows.”

Those words were spoken last month by a Republican state senator from Arizona, Wendy Rogers, at a white nationist rally. The topic was the execution of political enemies.

“If we try some of these high-level criminals, convict them and use a newly built set of gallows, it’ll make an example of these traitors who have betrayed our country.”

There was a time in America when open talk of political violence was restricted to fringe forums among extremists who had little prospect of holding public office. But Rogers has a national presence, is praised by former President Donald Trump, and breaks fundraising records.

She is not an outlier. Today allusions to violence are a routine component of the conservative brand, and some far-right Republicans have adopted violent hatred of opponents as a central ideological tenet.

The longer such rhetoric is allowed to persist the more actual violence is likely to occur.

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