The House of Representatives shuttered itself on Thursday amid threats of a violent far-right assault. The exact nature of those threats remain unknown, but it’s only the latest marker of what’s been true for months: threats of violence, credible and not, are intimidating the country’s political leadership.
In the months prior to the 9/11 attacks in 2001, George Tenet, then CIA Director, reported that the intelligence warnings were “blinking red” indicating the probability of a terrorist threat from Al-Qaeda loyal to Osama bin Laden and/or other international terrorist groups. Every indication and news report now is that the system is again “blinking red,” only this time from several domestic militia/terrorist groups loyal to Donald Trump. Trump could - but won’t - address the situation and renounce such groups and their threats. Indeed, in the past he has incited such groups. Many Repubs are cowards and support Trump, directly or indirectly, others remain silent. It is deplorable.
Rump will not call off the insurrectionist traitors. He revels in the worship they show him. And Republican members of Congress make it worse through their cowardice. They support a carnival barker, a lover of dictators, a grifter, one who is immoral and devoid of conscience. Since Trump likes to name names and call people names, here’s one: Donald Trump. Liar. Coward. Fascist. Tax Fraud. Business Cheat. Traitor.
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Violence has shaped our national politics since at least the 1770s.
You’re welcome.
Yes, I found that bizarre, too!
Very cool!
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They sort of have to.
Those members who are still screaming conspiracy theories ought to shut up and find a good lawyer.
It’s not violence when it’s directed at foreign countries, silly. 
foreign in a domestic sense
Voter suppression and inciting terrorism are the mantra for the GQP. Literally they should be under FBI scrutiny.
This is how insane the GQP is today.
well, here’s their out —
whether lawmakers wittingly or unwittingly
Maybe they’ll hire each other.
Okay, 1786 then.
I noticed that too.
What I think is the most important part of the article:
"But to Segal, the question isn’t so much one of whether elected officials are allowing themselves to be intimidated. Rather, the question is whether certain elected officials see the extremist groups behind the threats as their political base.
“How that’s going to land on the policymakers, if that’s going to have a true impact on how they vote or their actions, remains to be seen,” he said. “I would hate to think that these extremist fringes are in any way viewed as a base for some of these elected officials, but that’s the gray area that we’re trying to figure out.”
It is just another way of saying Trump did not create the current base of the Republican Party but rather, the base of the Republican Party created Trump.
Mind you I haven’t Googled it, yet, but if you’re parameter is “Congresswoman”, I think this one has a lock on the record…
Doesn’t it say good lawyer?
It does, but just ask them what they think of themselves!