In Mother Jones, Justine Sharrock has a very interesting article on the Oath Keepers and I was struck by this passage about Stewart Rhodes, the founder of Oath Keepers:
Then, in early 2008, SWAT received a letter from a retired colonel declaring that "the Constitution and our Bill of Rights are gravely endangered" and that service members, veterans, and police "is where they will be saved, if they are to be saved at all!"
Rhodes responded with a breathless column starring a despotic president, "Hitlery" Clinton, in her "Chairman Mao signature pantsuit." Would readers, he asked, obey orders from this "dominatrix-in-chief" to hold militia members as enemy combatants, disarm citizens, and shoot all resisters?
I remember some callers several years ago trying to convince Limbaugh and Hannity that the powers given to the President by the Patriot Act would be dangerous if someone like Hillary Clinton managed to win election. Even though both of them have described her in terms similar to those used by Rhodes, neither of them were convinced because at heart they aren't bothered by an authoritarian, militaristic state, as long as a Republican is President.
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