Congressman David Schweikert (R-Ariz.), a mainstream Republican representing Phoenix’s affluent suburbs revealed that he – and his family – have received more death threats since Donald Trump’s inauguration than every other year he’s been in Washington, D.C. combined. (The Daily Caller)
“My fear is this is the playbook of a lot of our brothers and sisters on the left — they’re going to get fringier and fringier, louder and louder, angrier and angrier, and as you and I know, we sometimes have some folks in our society who aren’t completely healthy,” Schweikert said while appearing on “Plaidcast,” a podcast hosted by Republican Rep. Sean Duffy of Wisconsin.
“And we had more death threats last year, in my office, even one towards my little girl, than we’ve ever had in all the other years combined and my fear is that this rage that is being generated for political turnout is actually really becoming unhealthy for our political society,” Schweikert continued.
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“It’s incredibly troubling, because I’ve had threats against my family and my children as well — horrible things said,” Duffy agreed. “We know what happened to [House Majority Whip] Steve Scalise last year and our baseball team and with that, I don’t think the left recognizes that this isn’t the way the system was set up.”
“We’re supposed to debate, we’re supposed to argue, and we can be passionate, but then we go vote and we have elections and after we have winners we kind of step back and let them govern,” Duffy said.
Schweikert continued saying that there’s a ferocious attempt to dehumanize anyone who disagrees with the left’s agenda. His comments come one year after a Bernie Sanders supporter attempted a mass assassination of Republican Members of Congress at an early morning baseball practice.
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