>>> IT’S BEEN UNCLEAR FOR SOME
TIME EXACTLY WHAT DONALD TRUMP
DOES, BUT LIKE HIS FATHER, HE
DOES LOVE TO MAKE CONTENT.
THIS WEEKEND HE POST AIDEDED A V
OF HIMSELF ABOUT SCHOOLS WHILE
POSING WITH A WALL FULL OF GUNS.
AS WEIRD AS THIS IS, IT’S KIND
OF BECOMING A TREND ON THE
RIGHT.
CONGRESSWOMAN LAUREN BOEBERT,
WHERE GUNS ARE WELCOME ON THE
PREMISES, HAS BUILT HER IDENTITY
AROUND GUNS.
SHE CARRIES A GLOCK ON CAPITOL
HILL AND RELEASED A VIDEO TO MAKE SURE WE ALL KNEW IT.
MAKE SURE WE ALL KNEW IT.
LAST WEEK SHE CAME INTO AZOOM SB
CONGRESSIONAL HEARING WITH GUNS
BEHIND HER, LAYING ACROSS A
BUNCH OF BOOKS.
BOEBERT SAYS THEY’RE READY FOR
USE.
APPARENTLY SHE LEAVES THEM OUT
BECAUSE SHE FEARS SHE WILL NEED
TO SHOOT MULTIPLE ROUNDS OF AMMO FOR SOMEONE WHO COMES INTO
FOR SOMEONE WHO COMES INTO
HER -- DEN?
IT HAS NOT A GREAT HISTORY FOR
THOSE AROUND THE GLOBE.
OSAMA BIN LADEN LIKED TO POSE IN
FRONT OF HIS GUNS.
CUBA REVOLUTIONARIES POSED WITH
GUNS ALL THE TIME, TOO.
YOU CAN SEE IT ALL OVER THE
WORLD.
IT IS UNQUESTIONABLY THE
AESTHETIC OF ARMED STRUGGLE, OF
REVOLUTION.
THOSE WHO PUT GUNS FRONT AND
CENTER IN ITS POLITICAL AS
AESTHETIC IS A WOMAN WHO IS
ENGAGING IN SOMETHING THAT WE
WOULD NOT CALL THE RHETORIC OF
POLITICS.
YOU CAN’T ESCAPE THE MEANING OF
IT.
IT COMMUNICATES THAT THEY’RE
OPEN TO AT LEAST THE POSSIBILITY
OF VIOLENT OVERTHROW OF THE
GOVERNMENT.
NOW IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, IT
SEEMS LIKE IT’S BECOMING COMMON
AND UNREMARKABLE.
YOU’LL REMEMBER MARJORIE TAYLOR
GREENE POSED WITH THIS GUN IN
HER CAMPAIGN ADS NEXT TO
GOVERNMENTAL MEMBERS OF
CONGRESS.
SHE WEARS A MASK THAT IS ANCIENT
GREEK FOR "COME AND TAKE THEM."
THE MESSAGE APPEARS TO BE, IF
YOU TRY TO TAKE AWAY OUR GUNS,
WE’LL START SHOOTING.
THERE IS THIS IDEALOGY OF THE
SECOND AMENDMENT FRANKLY ROOTED
IN THE FACT THAT THE U.S.
GOVERNMENT ITSELF DENIED ITSELF
OF USE OF FORCE BECAUSE THE
FOUNDERS HAD GONE THROUGH IT
THEMSELVES.
IT’S NOT TRUE, NOT NOW AND, FOR
INSTANCE, DURING THE WHISKEY
REBELLION IN 1874 WHEN PRESIDENT GEORGE WASHINGTON GOT ON HIS
GEORGE WASHINGTON GOT ON HIS
HORSE TO VIOLENTLY PROTEST.
THEY USE THE EXCUSE THAT THEY
CAN BE VIOLENT AT ANY TIME AND
THEY’RE WILLING TO BRANDISH THAT
CLAIM AS A THREAT IN PURSUIT OF
THEIR POLITICAL AIMS.
IT’S NOT SOME ACADEMIC THING,
RIGHT?
RIGHT NOW THE THREAT OF VIOLENCE
AND MENACE HANGS OVER OUR
COLLECTIVE POLITICAL LIFE, FROM
THE ARMED PROTESTS IN THE
MICHIGAN STATE HOUSE LAST SPRING
WHICH INCLUDED MEN WHO, THE FBI
SAYS, PLOTTED TO KIDNAP AND KILL
THE DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR TO THE
VIOLENT INSURRECTIONISTS ON
JANUARY 6, SOME OF WHOM VOWED TO
KILL ANY LAWMAKERS WHO WOULDN’T
DO THEIR BIDDING.
IT’S BECOME INCREASINGLY
STANDARD FOR THE MOST HARDCORE
DVTs OF TRUMP AND HIS FACTION
TO, AT THE VERY LEAST, WINK AT
THE NOTION THAT THEY’RE READY TO
HURT ANYONE WHO GETS IN THEIR
WAY.
SOMETIMES THE THREAT IS ALL TOO
REAL.
HERE’S ONE EXAMPLE.
LAST YEAR AN ANTI-FEMINIST
ATTORNEY WHO DESCRIBED HIMSELF
AS A TRUMP VOLUNTEER MURDERED
THE SON OF A FEDERAL JUDGE,
ESTHER SOLACE.
NEARLY KILLED HER.
SOLACE WAS A TARGET.
THEY WERE ALSO TRACKING DOWN
CHIEF JUSTICE SONIA SOTOMAYOR.