Tuesday, March 05, 2019

washingtonpost.com/ravenous-hysteria-over-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-just-reached-a-new-level-of-crazy

I had a morbid thought about two weeks ago that I did not articulate privately or publicly. I did not want to give anybody any ideas.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is an impossibly charismatic leftist populist, a Democratic Socialist. She is the brightest star in our political firmament. We kill our stars. Andrew Jackson was the subject of more than one assassination attempt; Lincoln, FDR, Huey Long, JFK, MLK, RFK. That was my morbid thought, that AOC would be assassinated. She has now articulated her own fear publicly, hence this post.

Republicans are hateful people. The Low Lifes, the supporters of Donald Trump, are particularly hateful, and they are violent. They are Klan members or sympathizers, like my brother; they are neo-Nazis, they are Brownshirts; they have punched, roughed up, and physically assaulted and murdered opponents of their false messiah and he, Trump, has encouraged their violence, refused to condemn it or dog whistled praise by faint damning. They have killed before and they will kill again. One or more vowed to assassinate Hillary Clinton as she made her way to the Capitol for her inauguration if she were to be elected. Hasson, the Coast Guard would be mass assassin, had Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez on his hit list. I played out my morbid thought a step: I do not know her, I have neve met her, but I would go to New York for her funeral.