Has anyone noticed, in this past week or so, how the Republicans have ramped up their accusatory speech, with more criminal wordage being used against the Me Too Movement and Democrats? Are they trying to imply that the MeToo Movement is a bunch of criminals and should be treated as such? We are NOT going back to the days of women being treated like criminals because the tell their truth.
Another reason this change in verbiage might be to lessen the sting of so many Republicans being charged with actual crimes. They’re now throwing accusations toward the MeToo Movement and Democrats, making it more ‘both sides do it’ , when that’s not true.
Are the gearing up for something major? For once, they're not repeating themselves, where one person uses a code word or phrase and continuously repeats it, like they've done before.
Mitch McConnell own words:
“Its been a great political gift to us,” he told the Post about the opposition. “The tactics have energized our base. I want to thank the mob because they’ve done the one thing we were having trouble doing, which was energizing the base.”
He’s what the Washington Examiner has reported about Senator Sonny Perdue:
Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga., on Wednesday excoriated Democrats on the Senate floor by saying they were employing tactics used by the Nazis nearly 100 years ago to get Republicans to back down from the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.
Perdue and his wife were accosted by protesters as they arrived in Washington this week, a step he said showed that Democrats and their activist allies are going "too far."
"I believe my Democratic colleagues have gone one tick too far this time," he said. "When paid activists who support you attack my wife, you have gone too far.”
According to the Daily Mail, Donald Trump Jr. says that in an age when lives can be ruined on both sides of he-said, she-said sexual misconduct claims, he fears more for his sons than for his daughters.
'I've got boys, and I've got girls. And when I see what's going on right now, it's scary,' he said.
Then there’s the master of misdirection and lies, his father, said this, in Topeka:
"You don't hand matches to an arsonist, and you don't give power to an angry left-wing mob, and that's what they've become," he said, warning that Democrats seek socialism, Venezuela-style, and open borders — claims they dispute. "The Democrats have become the party of crime. Republicans are the party of law and order and justice."
From CNN:
But Monday, Trump said the Democrats "tortured" Kavanaugh and his family over the accusations.
"I thought that the way they conducted themselves, the way they dealt with a high-level, brilliant -- going to be a great justice of the Supreme Court -- the way they really tortured him and his family I thought it was disgrace. I thought it was one of the most disgraceful performances I've ever seen," Trump said.
Words do matter. We need the media and other members of the MeToo Movement (including their supporters) and Democrats to call them out when they use words that imply that the MeToo Movement and Democrats are using criminal behavior, when they are actually using very legal — as their guaranteed First Admentment Rights — Free Speech and the Right to Assemble.