Renea Turner was a well connected Ohio Republican with solid ties to the state legislature. How solid? A few weeks ago, Renea Turner met with State Representative John Becker to demand the imprisonment of Governor Mike DeWine, a Trump-backing Republican, but a Republican who had come out in favor of minimal restrictions on facemasks.
In a Facebook Live feed delivered on October 22nd, Turner announced that she was the new governor of Ohio, that Mike DeWine had went beyond his authority and she was taking over the government. This is before the plot even gets started.
The story in Ohio mirrors much of the rest of the country, were supporters of Donald Trump want to contend that those who would like to save lives are apparently the problem. From WSOS:
“I think it’s incumbent upon all of us to denounce that and say that’s wrong, whether it’s coming from the left, whether it’s coming from the right, that is wrong," DeWine says.
Before she resigned in June, Ohio Department of Health director Amy Acton received numerous threats and routinely found armed protestors in her neighborhood. And recently, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer was the target of domestic terrorists who authorities say wanted to kidnap her.
In article after article, Renea Turner and these militia members are referred to as “armed protestors” or “activists”. These individuals are neither of those things. They are domestic terrorists. They are domestic terrorists who have been given a voice by the Republican Party that has chosen to embrace a junta type attitude and speak in terms that label other Americans in ways that divide us so deeply that they would prefer to burn everything down rather than do anything productive.
Donald J. Trump owns this attitude. He has encouraged this attitude. He has spoken outloud about this, with his statements attacking governors, mayors, and state governments.
These people are not activists. They are domestic terrorists, and that is the only term we should consider when discussing groups that plot against America.
