While we are on the subject of GOP violent extremism, we have today's events at the GOP mid-term convention, where one attendee as a number of Democrats were mentioned yelled "he should be shot!"
https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/el-sayed-responds-to-gop-convention-member-calling-for-him-to-be-shot-call-it-out-for-what-it-is/
This is a member of a political party in power calling for members of a rival political party to be shot. This is not peacetime conduct, it's the shit we expect in civil wars cold or otherwise.
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