When today’s Democrats can’t get what they want, they turn to chaos and thuggery and seize bullhorns and bricks and take to the streets to march or take over offices to scream. When they’re called to account for their chaotic uprisings, they quickly pivot and play the victim.
Here’s the situation: Two Black male elected lawmakers in Tennessee were expelled from their seats after grabbing a bullhorn, raising their fists in the air and leading an activist protest against their own legislative colleagues as a means of pressuring for gun control. And their response to the expulsion?To rail against the unfairness of their fellow lawmakers, against the unfairness of society, unfairness of the system. To raise fists and demand their will.
They behaved badly. They treated their political seats as platforms for personal agendas, rather than as humble positions of trust and duty to their constituents. They made mockeries of their offices. They cast aside laws and regulations and policies and even the Constitution to throw down with the activist crowd. They led up the activist takeover of their supposedly somber seats and offices of service. They behaved like 2-year-olds throwing tantrums.
Biden also said this: “[The] expulsion of lawmakers who engaged in peaceful protest is shocking, undemocratic and without precedent. Rather than debating the merits of the issue, these Republican lawmakers have chosen to punish, silence and expel duly elected representatives of the people of Tennessee.”
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