In the aftermath of the horrible incident in Portland a few days ago, and the Mayor’s move to ban some scheduled alt-right “Free Speech” events, the chairman of the Portland area GOP has announced that the party is considering using the Oath-Keepers and the Three-Percenters for security, according to an article published in the Guardian today.
“I am sort of evolving to the point where I think that it is appropriate for Republicans to continue to go out there,” [Multnomah County GOP chair James Buchal] said. “And if they need to have a security force protecting them, that’s an appropriate thing too.”
Asked if this meant Republicans making their own security arrangements rather than relying on city or state police, Buchal said: “Yeah. And there are these people arising, like the Oath Keepers and the Three Percenters.”
Asked if he was considering such groups as security providers, Buchal said: “Yeah. We’re thinking about that. Because there are now belligerent, unstable people who are convinced that Republicans are like Nazis.”
Maybe they will be handing out free brown shirts to their new security force.
We seem to spiraling down a whirlpool of violence that has no escape route.