As expected, violent Trump-supporting white supremacist terrorist groups are now making their post-election move to threaten the governments of states that Biden won in order to change the outcome of the election.
As President Trump signaled his intention to continue fighting the results of an election that he lost, some of his supporters — many of them carrying guns — amassed at state capitol buildings around the country.
In some cities, tensions continued to escalate throughout the day Saturday. In Harrisburg, Pa., the police started out watching the scene from afar, but intervened during the afternoon to keep supporters of Mr. Trump and President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. separated. Some Trump supporters were carrying what appeared to be assault rifles.
In Salem, Ore., members of the far-right Proud Boys, a group notorious for engaging in violence, gathered at a rally where people embraced the president’s baseless claims of election fraud. One person wearing a Proud Boys shirt pepper-sprayed someone, and video showed another person in the crowd shoving a photographer. The police intervened.
In Lansing, Mich., right-wing advocates chanted, “Whose streets? Our streets!” and repeated Mr. Trump’s false contention that he won the election. Video showed a fight break out, with people knocked to the ground near a line of portable toilets. Many people were carrying weapons.
Very soon, those people with weapons are going to start using them, especially with massively irresponsible and incendiary rhetoric from not just Trump, but 99% of his party of terrorists.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) warned on Sunday that there will never be another Republican president if the current 2020 elections results are allowed to stand.
Graham made the remarks on Fox News after multiple news networks called the election for President-elect Joe Biden.
“Number one, this is a contested election and the media doesn’t decide who becomes president,” Graham complained. “If they did, you would never have a Republican president forever. So, we’re discounting them.”
The South Carolina Republican went on the claim that he had evidence of 15 dead people voting in Pennsylvania.
“If we don’t challenge and change the U.S. election system, there will never be another Republican president elected again,” he asserted. “President Trump should not concede.”
Note Graham here is not talking about challenging the election as illegitimate, he's talking about our entire election system as illegitimate. And Graham easily won his election while spouting his nonsense about the system being tilted in Democrats' favor, in a state where Republicans have done everything possible to disenfranchise thousands of Black voters for decades.
There's a far, far distance between Trump refusing to concede in order to protect his brand as chief Biden critic in exile, which he's doing, and what Graham is saying here, which is straight-up sedition.
I mean at this point, the violence in the days and weeks ahead is almost guaranteed, and I am despondent over it.
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