@TimAlberta, your framing here leaves off a critical point @RepJasonCrow made: "Welcome to the club." Rs are not the only ones getting threats. They are simply the only ones using that as an excuse for inaction.
https://twitter.com/TimAlberta/status/1349389150622019584
1/ When the President of the United States and his allies are amping up threats of violence, every one of us with the courage to do what is right has to deal with those consequences. Not just members. Members' families. Members' staffs. It is frightening, despicable, horrible.
2/ But Jason and I, and several dozen others are all in office because we stood up to Trump in 2018 when our predecessor's didn't. The voters in our district did not change, but the leadership did.
3/ Don't get me wrong. I have tremendous sympathy for anyone, public or private who has to deal with these threats. But to see everything that has happened over the last 4 years and STILL cower in fear of action is to flag yourself as fundamentally unfit for public service.
4/ To the extent that people like Jason and I are in any way safer than they are today it is only because we have used our platforms over the last 2 years to speak to our constituents common humanity, to lead people to the light. To lead.
5/ Those across the aisle have that same opportunity. The question is only whether they have the ability. /fin
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