In 1861, the party of rich slaveowners threatened civil war if voters elected Abraham Lincoln, stupidly creating an opportunity for a now Republican Congress. (Without Democrats to stop them, Republicans were now free to abolish slavery.) Griffin makes threats of violence while President Biden dehumanizes his political opponents.
The Democrats really need to rethink this making of threats. No one is going to come through such a disaster well, but Democrats will quickly find out that 24 million modern sporting rifles will be pointing at them.
Gun rights activists get a lot of criticism for using the insurrectionary theory of the Second Amendment, which was authored by James Madison, who also drafted the Second Amendment. Kathy Griffin is threatening civil war if she does not get her way, proving the merit of the insurrectionary theory.
I like my chances against Kathy Griffin
ReplyDeleteShe will threaten to behead a paper machie effigy of you!
DeleteKathy, you're terms are acceptable
ReplyDeleteBeing fair - secession was a project of a faction of slaveowners, mostly Democrats but also many ex-Whigs. They weren't even a majority of Democrats: the party backed vehement Unionist Stephen Douglas.
ReplyDeleteYes, there were northern Democrats not prepared to go along. Southern ex-Whigs largely merged into the Democratic Party as slavery disputes splintered the Whig Party.
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