Some in GOP Parrot Far-Right Talk of a Coming Civil War By Associated Press Nationwide
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) War-like imagery has begun spreading in Republican circles after the attack on the U.S. Capitol by a mob of President Donald Trump s supporters, with some elected officials and party leaders rejecting pleas to tone down rhetoric calling for a second civil war.
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Some elected Republican officials and party leaders are rejecting pleas to tone down rhetoric calling for a second civil war
The heightened rhetoric mimics language far-right extremists and white supremacists have used for years
Some in the GOP Parrot Far-Right Talk of a Coming Civil War By Jay Reeves and Julie Carr Smyth | January 19, 2021
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) War-like imagery has begun spreading in Republican circles after the attack on the U.S. Capitol by a mob of President Donald Trump’s supporters, with some elected officials and party leaders rejecting pleas to tone down rhetoric calling for a second civil war.
In northwestern Wisconsin, the chairman of the St. Croix County Republican Party was forced to resign Friday after refusing for a week after the siege to remove an online post urging followers to “prepare for war.” The incoming co-chair of the Michigan GOP and her husband, a state lawmaker, have joined a conservative social media site created after the Capitol riot where the possibility of civil war is a topic.
War-like imagery has begun spreading in Republican circles after the attack on the U.S. Capitol by a mob of President Donald Trump’s supporters, with some elected officials and party leaders rejecting pleas to tone down rhetoric calling for a second civil war.
Partisans are using strident words and images to define the other side not just for policies with which they disagree but as evil, said George Rable, a retired historian at the University of Alabama.