Monday, November 26, 2018

Mike Lee goes neo-Confederate in a speech to the Federalist Society

Sam Seder does a useful takedown of a radical rightwing "libertarian" speech by Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah, Republican Mutant Mike Lee Delivers Silly Plan To Wipe Out Leftists The Majority Report 11/25/2018:


Lee is pretty much in open neo-Confederate mode here. It's hard to see how this can be understood as other than a threat and encouragement to violence by the Radical Right in pursuit of their goals.

On Sen. Lee, see also: Emily Hazzard, Sen. Mike Lee gives a perfectly ridiculous reason to ignore climate change Think Progress 11/25/2018

OpenSecrets.org provides information about Lee's campaign contributors: Sen. Mike Lee - Utah.

Lee even occasionally poses a moderate, or at least what the media is willing to accept as a Republican moderate. (Dennis Rombo, Trump backs criminal justice reform legislation that Sen. Mike Lee helped write Deseret News 11/15/2018)

But there's nothing moderate about threatening violence in pursuit of states rights, as we see him doing in that video.

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