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Do crazy mobs carefully check IDs and voter records, or is EVERY congresscritter endangered by Trump (Original Post) lagomorph777 Jan 2021 OP
Yep, I was thinking about that too. tanyev Jan 2021 #1

tanyev

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1. Yep, I was thinking about that too.
Thu Jan 7, 2021, 06:50 PM
Jan 2021

There are 435 reps and 100 senators. By most people's standards I am obsessed with politics and I would probably only recognize 50-60 on sight. If that riot had gotten any uglier, I expect a 'let God sort them out' mentality would have arisen very quickly.

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