National Security ‘Experts’: Republicans ‘Behaving Like a Terror Group,’ to Be Viewed ‘as Enemy Combatants’. By Joshua Klein.
Several “national security experts” interviewed for an essay in The Root published on Thursday, attacked the Republican Party, claiming it behaves “like a terror group,” is rife with “terrorist sympathizers,” and should be viewed as “enemy combatants.” …
“[W]e have an entire political party that has converted into an authoritarian — albeit Americanized version — style of politics that cares nothing about U.S. democracy or anyone who is not white,” the essay starts. …
NEW: National security experts told me the Republican Party is functioning like a terror cell. One said, "If they were in Afghanistan, we would’ve hit them. Either a raid, drop a bomb on them." Thanks @PamKeithFL, @_pamcampos, @KyleWBibby, @MalcolmNance. https://t.co/d7dBvffBx3
— Terrell Jermaine Starr (@Russian_Starr) February 18, 2021
“This sounds like an incitement to civil war,” wrote conservative author and filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza. “What a way to talk about half the country! We have not seen this type of rhetoric in this country since 1860.” …
“[I]magine the reaction if someone in a right-wing outlet published an article in which someone casually mentioned dropping a bomb on Democrats,” wrote historian Varad Mehta. “These people are nuts.”
The left has gone dangerously nutty, driven by competitive virtue signaling in an echo chamber that is increasingly untethered to reality.
hat-tip Stephen Neil
