Did you say democrats think ? Good one.
You can pretend that none of the 81 million Americans who voted to dump the Trump at their first opportunity was thinking if that is what you need to do. Of course, that says much about
your cerebral faculties, and nothing about theirs.
What do you think of the behavior of Trump's goons, not only in their deadly insurrection, but elsewhere? Decent folks find it repugnant.
Election workers weren't surprised by the Capitol riot.
Trump's supporters targeted them first.
They were horrified and shocked, but not surprised.
“I think in the back of our lot of our minds, this was like, an attack on our country was being invited,” Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs said in an interview. “All of us have been
saying this kind of misinformation is dangerous, and, unfortunately, this is the outcome of that kind of disinformation.”..
Gabriel Sterling, a Republican and a top election official in Georgia, tried to raise the alarm in December about what he considered the potential for imminent violence. In a blistering news conference, he warned that “someone’s going to get shot” as a direct result of the misinformation and the lies about the results of the election being promoted by Trump and repeated and embraced by his supporters.
Georgia election workers at all levels described some of the more alarming threats and abuse. They escalated the minute it became clear that Biden had flipped Georgia, a traditionally red state, blue for the first time in decades, state officials said...
The elections director in Fulton County, Georgia, Richard Barron, said his office was deluged with threats of violence and verbal abuse...
“At one point there were a lot of threats about people who were going to gun us down in our office. Those calls were pretty disturbing to the staff.”
His office faced a bomb threat, and employees reported being followed and filmed. Poll workers attempting to pick up and deliver absentee ballots in drop boxes
were blocked in by people in cars, Barron said.
His office shared 85 voicemails that Barron received in the six days leading up to the Senate runoffs on Jan. 5, nearly all of them angry and accusatory. At least one appeared to refer to the
pro-Trump protests that were being planned for Washington the next day, though the caller seemingly mixed up the month.
Extremists openly planned to “occupy” the Capitol with deadly force on Jan. 6, the day the Constitution sets aside for Congress to count and certify state electors in the presidential contest. Trump urged his supporters to gather for a rally before the count and told them to march on the Capitol afterward.
“You are clearly complicit to treason,” one man said in a voicemail left Sunday, Jan. 3. “We’ll be thinking about you on Jan. 6th in D.C.”
“What side are you gonna be on when the f------ shooting starts, brother?” said another male caller on the same day.
Barron said the mostly Black staff in Fulton County’s elections department faced frequent racism, with callers using the N-word...
Fuchs said the state received many bomb threats at polling sites, while police investigated and warned off one individual who was threatening election workers in Gwinnett County. She also described how Raffensperger’s wife was texted graphic, sexualized threats, and said that one of Raffensperger’s relatives was the victim of a break-in...
