It's been an RNC to remember https://t.co/Qe3e4g0PBK pic.twitter.com/EKAmzOuckX
— andrew kaczynski (@BuzzFeedAndrew) July 20, 2016
Our friend John Becker writes on Facebook (reprinted here with permission):
SHAME — The chants of “lock her up!” from the delegates and speakers at this week’s Republican National Convention are disgraceful and baseless and chilling enough, but now we have a surrogate for and adviser to Donald Trump going even further: he’s calling for Hillary Clinton’s execution.
That’s right, they’re calling for the execution of their political opponents now. That’s something that happens in dictatorships, not democracies.
Republican friends, let me be perfectly clear: if you do not immediately, explicitly, unequivocally, and loudly condemn and repudiate this hateful ugliness, you are tacitly condoning your party’s dangerous slide into the evils of authoritarian fascism. Period.
There can be no hedging on this, no sitting on fences. How you choose to respond will reveal whose side you are on. I’ll be watching.