OPINION:
Much ado has been made about Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s recent tirade against two Supreme Court justices, during which he told them a “whirlwind” was coming and they’d soon “pay the price” for their votes on an abortion case — for votes they hadn’t even yet cast.
But that’s how the Democrats do.
For Democrats, historically speaking, these threats, these intimidation tactics, these rhetorical outbursts of anger are called: communication.
It is the way of the Democrat people. They’re shrill, they’re angry, they’re intimidating, they’re thuggish to the point of inciting violence.
Schumer’s remarks are just the latest display of what Democrats chalk up simply as the normal course of doing political business.
That’s not to say they weren’t reprehensible. They were.
At a rally right outside the Supreme Court, as justices were listening to arguments on an abortion case, Schumer said: “I want to tell you, [Neil] Gorsuch, I want to tell you, [Brett] Kavanaugh. You have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price.”
Holy cow. What did he mean by that?
Chief Justice John Roberts called the remarks “inappropriate” and “dangerous.” Republicans in the Senate moved to censure Schumer. Calls for Schumer to resign rippled through media. And Schumer, in response, acknowledged using the “wrong words” — without acknowledging their threatening nature. Or apologizing.
“[I]n no way was I making a threat,” Schumer said, CNN reported. “And Republicans who are busy manufacturing outrage over these comments know that, too.”
Maybe. Maybe not.
But when it comes to politics, Democrats don’t just get dirty. They viciously sling mud.
“Maxine Waters encourages supporters to harass Trump administration officials,” CNN wrote in June, 2018.
“Maxine Waters snarks: I threaten Trump supporters ’all the time,’” The Washington Examiner wrote in September, 2018.
“Rashida Tlaib on Trump: ’We’re going to impeach this motherf—,’” Vox wrote in January, 2019.
Socialist-supporting James Hodgkinson targets and shoots Republican Steve Scalise on the baseball field. Nancy Pelosi ratchets liberal angst against President Donald Trump’s administration by calling for summers of resistance. Leftist loon Madonna publicly wonders “about blowing up the White House.” Snowflakes at California-Berkeley set fires and destroy properties in protest of a planned speech by conservative Milo Yiannopoulos. Crazed anti-conservatives at Middlebury College assault a professor as she leaves the venue for a speech — canceled — by libertarian scholar Charles Murray.
Antifa.
Black Lives Matter.
How about this one? Abortion.
And more.
“Ronna, go to hell,” said former DNC chairwoman Donna Brazile, on a recent Fox News segment to discuss the RNC’s Ronna McDaniel and her views of the Democratic primary.
Host Ed Henry tried to intervene.
“No,” Brazile said. “[She can] go to hell. I’m tired of it, Ed.”
So’s Schumer, apparently,
So’s the left.
So are all the Democrats who stand in staunch opposition to this administration, to this administration’s supporters, and to all that this administration and the administration’s supporters represent.
And when it comes to speaking their opposition, thuggery and ugliness and viciousness and vileness do just fine. It’s the Democrat Party’s way.
• Cheryl Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com or on Twitter, @ckchumley. Listen to her podcast “Bold and Blunt” by clicking HERE. And never miss her column; subscribe to her newsletter by clicking HERE.
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