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Arkansas Granny

(31,518 posts) Wed Oct 10, 2018, 02:22 PM Oct 2018

Republicans used to love the sound of an angry mob. What happened?

There was a time, less than a decade ago, when the sound of red-faced protest was music to Republican ears.

That, of course, was when Barack Obama was president, and the tea party movement was hijacking congressional town hall meetings with shouts of “Tyranny!” There were plenty of shoving matches, and Democratic lawmakers were burned in effigy. The police were regularly called in to bring a semblance of order.

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Meanwhile, Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) lauded the conservative agitation as a pure expression of the frustrations and values of ordinary Americans.

Now it is the Democrats who are making the noise, and the argument is playing in reverse.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/republicans-used-to-love-the-sound-of-an-angry-mob-what-happened/2018/10/10/e93ad7e2-cbd4-11e8-a360-85875bac0b1f_story.html?utm_term=.06dadf6009f8

It seems that when Democrats protest, they are a dangerous mob. Republicans don't like it when their own tactics are used against them.

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Republicans used to love the sound of an angry mob. What happened? (Original Post) Arkansas Granny Oct 2018 OP

they like an angry mob of old white men crazycatlady Oct 2018 #1

Only if its their own angry mon.. whathehell Oct 2018 #2

They still do. That is Trump's and the GOP's voting base. Freethinker65 Oct 2018 #3

:) Another false equivalency, though. Conservatives NEVER Hortensis Oct 2018 #4

They are bullies. All bullies are afraid of people standing up to them. bitterross Oct 2018 #5

maybe the Post missed Charlottesville? rurallib Oct 2018 #6

Really? Who remembers this from the 2000 debacle? Stinky The Clown Oct 2018 #7

Situational politics. maxsolomon Oct 2018 #8

crazycatlady

(4,492 posts)

1. they like an angry mob of old white men

Reply to Arkansas Granny (Original post)

Wed Oct 10, 2018, 02:28 PM

Oct 2018

When the mob is women, young people, and POC they don't like it.

whathehell

(29,067 posts)

2. Only if its their own angry mon..

Reply to Arkansas Granny (Original post)

Wed Oct 10, 2018, 02:33 PM

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Freethinker65

(10,023 posts)

3. They still do. That is Trump's and the GOP's voting base.

Reply to Arkansas Granny (Original post)

Wed Oct 10, 2018, 02:37 PM

Oct 2018

But why are they angry??? They got everything they wanted. They are angry because they thrive on anger.

It takes a hell of a lot to make Democrats that angry, but gotta hand it to Trump and the GOP for overstepping their path to government destruction. They awakened those that rarely get political.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)

4. :) Another false equivalency, though. Conservatives NEVER

Reply to Arkansas Granny (Original post)

Wed Oct 10, 2018, 02:42 PM

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had things even remotely resembling our principled Women's Marches, for instance. Not all liberal/Democratic marches are participated in by millions, but they are also virtually always without arrests.

Rare protests held by groups within the Capitol a special subcategory and exception, of course.

bitterross

(4,066 posts)

5. They are bullies. All bullies are afraid of people standing up to them.

Reply to Arkansas Granny (Original post)

Wed Oct 10, 2018, 02:53 PM

Oct 2018

Republicans are no different. They don't like it when someone stands up to them. They're actually very frightened little boys.

rurallib

(62,420 posts)

6. maybe the Post missed Charlottesville?

Reply to Arkansas Granny (Original post)

Wed Oct 10, 2018, 04:05 PM

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Stinky The Clown

(67,807 posts)

7. Really? Who remembers this from the 2000 debacle?

Reply to Arkansas Granny (Original post)

Wed Oct 10, 2018, 04:13 PM

Oct 2018

A GOP angry mob (on break from their GOP staffer jobs)

maxsolomon

(33,345 posts)

8. Situational politics.

Reply to Arkansas Granny (Original post)

Wed Oct 10, 2018, 04:13 PM

Oct 2018

They will argue whatever side of the argument is to their advantage, with no worries that they'll be held to account, and confident in the poor memory of their voters.

It's been working for years. When Dems retake control of Congress, they'll switch to Obstruction and never acknowledge that they objected to the Dems doing it.

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