so Republicans voted for a Violent Thug

[JI7]

at this point these things say more about the republican party voters than about the candidates.

[nikibatts]

1. Which one?

[jesskirablue42]

2. assault and battery

is for Montana legislators only because it's only presidents that actually get to "shoot someone in the face and get away with it".

[L. Coyote]

3. The Trump Effect -- Trump 55.6% vs. Gianforte 50.7% --- a 5% drop.

If the incident had happened before so many people voted early, who knows?

At any rate, Trump won by 20%, the R's only won by 7% tonight. That's a big change.

[Alice11111]

4. Most people had already voted before the assault

incident. However, Trumpsters eat that kind of tough bully shit up. One local lady told MSNBC, when they played the audio for her, "sounds like my kinda guy."

[JI7]

5. there was one area which msnbc highlighted where dems had hoped to make gains

but the percentage won by the republican on election day was the same as he led by in the early voting.

[Alice11111]

9. I noticed that too

[loyalsister]

6. Not just trumpsters

I know liberals who would cheer on anyone who punched Rush Limbaugh. We live in a culture that worships confrontation in their entertainment, be it reality TV, conflict driven news media, or even US athletics. The US is full of bullies and they exist within groups of all political stripes.

[Alice11111]

7. I agree about the culture of bullies. DT displayed to NATO

with both his push and speech. Also, it is reinforced, as you said, by many things. I thing the Repubs are much worse though.

[loyalsister]

11. I agree that the GOP is more tolerant of bullying

I also think that people who want the US and politicians ingeneral to be more of a bully are attracted to the GOP.

On the other hand, I have friends wanted Obama to be "tougher" and used the knife to a gunfight imagry. I'm just saying the desire for meaner and bigger bullies is not completely unique to Rs. Since hipocrisy is damaging to credibility, I think it is in our interest to respond in kind.

[RandiFan1290]

8. RW radio was celebrating him

and calling for further violence.

[Alice11111]

10. They may have just figured out a new camp move for RWers

This could bring us faster to a fascist state though.
Just drip, drip ever day.
It's good I live in a blue area or I would just be pissed off at people all of the time. I don't like them & as soon as they know be better, they don't like me.