.MaddowBlog: By all appearances, the GOP has already made its decision, and it's siding with Rep. Brooks and others like him.
The first part of Rep. Mo Brooks' statement yesterday was benign. As a right-wing North Carolina man threatened to detonate a bomb near the U.S. Capitol, the Alabama congressman said he prayed for the safety of first responders and lamented violence targeting political institutions.
But then the Republican kept going, adding,"Although this terrorist's motivation is not yet publicly known, and generally speaking, I understand citizenry anger directed at dictatorial Socialism and its threat to liberty, freedom and the very fabric of American society." After encouraging his likeminded allies to vote, Brooks concluded,"Bluntly stated, America's future is at risk.
The Democratic pushback was almost immediate."It is astonishing that this needs to be said but no one who serves in Congress should be expressing public sympathy with the views of a terrorist who threatened to blow up the U.S. Capitol," Rep. Don Beyer , in reference to Brooks,"I know it seems like hyperbole when we say that Republicans have become enemies of democracy, but here is a mainstream Republican TAKING THE SIDE OF THE BOMBER.
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