She will confront and harass Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to gain attention and boost her own standing in the Q-GOP, but the real threat of actual physical harm will come from the crazies itching to use their 2A joysticks against an "evil villain" like AOC.
I'm fully aware that there are issues where there isn't a "right" or "wrong" answer, just differing opinions on how to reach a shared goal.
As I see it our goals are safety for AOC and others who are threatened, and finding a cure to the pandemic of poisonous political ideology which threatens the life of our representative democracy.
Of course, the question and debate centers on how we can best achieve these shared goals.
Divisions in society always raise, for a time, the most extreme people to positions of "leadership" -- and they lead in the direction of the most extreme impulses, including mindless violence. Their words and actions are a reflection of their inner turmoil. It would be a mistake for us to mirror those reflections.
Don't add fuel to the fires upon which these extreme people and their followers feed. Instead, take away their oxygen. Ultimately they will discredit themselves, as long as we don't validate them with our own actions. Their greatest fear is irrelevance, loss of followers, and being ignored.
In the public square, however, we want to reduce the need for body guards, and the number of angry, unstable, armed individuals. This is best accomplished by the rule of law. Despite the frequent failures of the legal system -- from police violence to stratified justice in the courts -- the actual rule of law offers the potential for a more just society.
If Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez truly needs professional security measures due to her prominence as a member of the United States Congress and vilification by extremists, that service should be provided by our government as a function of protecting the institutions of our representative democracy under the rule of law. Among the lessons to be learned from the events of 6 January 2021 is the need for improved security against domestic terrorists.
In this scenario Democrats stand firm with our Constitution and the rule of law, while stochastic terrorists like Marjorie Taylor Greene -- who are becoming the face of today's Republican Party along with the twice impeached and soon to be indicted would-be emperor -- stand nakedly exposed outside it.
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