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Uhhh, they forgot this tidbit-
A debate on the floor took almost 24 hours and ended on April 1, 1920, with all five members expelled. Speaker Sweet was congratulated with “scores of telegrams, some from persons of prominence in the political, financial, or industrial world,” according to the account in The Times.
Messrs. Waldman, Claessens and Solomon went down, 116 to 28, with members of both parties in both camps. Messrs. DeWitt and Orr were expelled, 104 to 40.
The bold again amplifies my point of the mob mentality described. None of this is about political parties, at least not the Duopoly. This is all about the Constitution, specifically the First Amendment, blatant violations thereof, the mob mentality that greases its wheels (see Earnest Starr above, the Palmer Raids above, the "Red Scare" in general, and the fact that the link I eventually dragged out of you depicts at least one assemblyan's causation as having spoken ill of Woodrow Wilson (oh the horror)).
So if anything you've alluded here to a point about mob mentality I could have made stronger -- thanks for that. This type of hypernationalistic or hyper-anything bullshit depends on an unquestioning body of the unwashed to do its dirty deeds.
And that is exactly why I drag these nefarious episodes out of the history calendar and expose them to the sunlight.