A safe place for peaceful MAGAs
Trump supporters infuriated by new parking rules near his NJ golf club.
NJ.com reported today about the poor behavior of Trumpsters at a Bedminster Township public meeting to discuss prohibiting parking on a quiet street next to the local public library.
Officials in a Somerset County town have enacted strict new parking rules on one street, angering supporters of former President Donald Trump who say it will make it more difficult for them to hold political rallies near his golf club.
The all-Republican Bedminster Township Committee voted unanimously at its Aug. 19 meeting to pass an amended traffic ordinance that prohibits parking on Clucas Brook Road. They said they changed the parking rules on the road, which is near the town library, due to safety and noise concerns.
The location is about 3 miles from Trump’s Bedminster golf club. Because parking closer to the golf club is restricted, MAGAs (and MAGA protesters) have often used the public library grounds as gathering spaces for rallies.
Library is top right, Trump’s golf club is bottom left
In the public comment portion of the meeting, about a dozen people spoke for or against prohibiting parking on Clucas Brook Road, where the library is located.
One particularly obnoxious MAGA, not a Bedminster resident, drove 100 miles from his town on the Jersey Shore to weigh in.
“I can’t drive two hours and then not have a place to park my car on a public street,” one resident from Waretown in Ocean County said during his public comment time.
The meeting turned contentious at one point, when the Waretown resident told a local resident — who is Asian and had spoken in support of the parking ordinance — to “Go back to China.”
Fortunately, he was immediately rebuked by a member of the all-Republican township committee.
Committeeman Douglas Stevinson said. “You don’t come into my chambers and attack my residents like that.” The comment was “unacceptable,” he added.
The Waretown resident then called the members of the committee Nazis, adding an expletive.
Apparently, nearly a dozen MAGAs heard about and got worked up enough about a hearing on a reasonable parking ordinance to want to drive an hour or more away in order to yell and whine about being persecuted.
Several argued the ordinance was political persecution and restricted their freedom of speech and assembly rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.
“I and my patriots see this all as bullying, personal and political persecution and harassment, plain and simple,”
The Bedminster township committee members pointed out that the proposed parking ordinance did not violate any First Amendments rights. Protesters are free to gather at the library, and use its parking lot, for peaceful purposes.
Lots of parking at and near the library, just not on the quiet adjacent road.
There’s an alternate reality world we deal with, even in deep blue New Jersey, where these MAGAs share and stew over perceived attacks on their rights. Someone willing to drive 100 miles, to whine at other elected Republican officials who are insufficiently fervent Trump believers, is not that far from being willing to take their grievances further, into violence.
I hope and pray that Vice President Harris defeats Trump soundly in November. But even if she does, these MAGAs will continue to be a threat that cannot be ignored.
