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It's so boring already: but imagine the media reaction if an alt-right mob surrounded a US senator like this? We'd be knee deep in a national conversation about political violence.

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The mob has surrounded Senator @RandPaul and his wife as they left the White House

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Chad Felix Greene

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But Chris Hayes says its what makes America great and was just like the Tea Party!!

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Jonathan H. Adler

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From what I recall of Tea Party protest coverage, it need not actually happen for us to get that sort of reporting.

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Needless to say that pretty much every Republican and Conservative would immediately call them out on it.

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This is an obvious and direct result of

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Incendiary rhetoric!

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Any comments from Schumer or Democrat leadership?

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The libertarian senator, the one that looks at individual rights, shows where they stand.

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D-CA Rep Maxine Waters invites violence against

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supports, specifically members of the Trump Administration. youtu.be/Tts1q9TgXxg

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Compare the coverage of the Giffords and Scalise shootings. In my mind a real turning point when in comes to the national media.

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