Yes but authoritarians and republicans are the same thing… apparently?
As if we missed the reference to civil war and slaveholders amazing.
No It’s not. Nowhere in the article does she call for actual civil war.
It’s rhetorical.
The Biden administration did that months ago with “the Domestic War on Terror”.
The victimhood. Holy wow
Pull the other one.
Jong-Fast cited Richardson’s claim that a focus on going after Republican “authoritarians threatening our democracy” would be like former President Abraham Lincoln going after southern slaveholders in the Civil War.
What did Lincoln do to those southern slave holders again? Give them a stern talking to? Invite them to debate?
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It’s like I always say, and progressive liberal marxists prove me right every time, is that they are always guilty of what they accuse others of, it never fails. 
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But hey Atlantic, kudos, gun manufacturers and gun stores are going to have a very merry Christmas this year.
In fact he did. He gave them several stern talking tos. There were numerous debates.
That’s irrelevant though. The reference is to unification under a cause Not actual civil war
You viewing it victimhood. This is quite literally the same posts that we could have found in the i don’t like guns thread
“in the civil war”. Own it.
Of course the question is who is the authoritarian? Who is trying to rule by mandate? And who needs a manufactured enemy, a punching bag, to distract from record and try to change the narrative?
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“Enemy of the people”
Why is civil war in quotes?
Oh yes, completely unambiguous as opposed to treat them like slave holders in the civil war. Both are very common political rhetoric don’t you know
Because it quotes the article in question, have we moved on to the willfully obtuse portion of the discussion already?
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That is an interesting take…
There is this as well…
Bill Kristol, the former editor of the conservative Weekly Standard and the current head of Defending Democracy Together, is worried about the GOP’s move toward authoritarianism, but he seems skeptical that Biden can succeed at convincing the country that the danger is clear and present. “Citizens in democracies—being free and kind of happy-go-lucky, as they should be—can get a bit complacent and take their freedoms and well-being for granted,” he told me. “Historically, they sometimes only fully wake up to dangers and rise to the occasion when the external threat seems obvious and dangerous. Can they mobilize as easily against a more insidious internal threat?”
She never said civil war. She sure as hell implied it by referencing Lincoln. But it’s clearly a rhetorical device.
“Enemy of the people” has some interesting call backs too.
Like purges and genocide.
No it doesn’t. She never said civil war. She referenced it. So again why is it in quotes as if it appears in the article.
Fox News said civil war. She never did.
So the Atlantic saying it, no material difference.
And? The left and the never Trumpers are allied against Trump and his supporters. You quoted Benedict Arnold to defend the British.
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