I guess this shouldn't surprise me, but it's still disturbing.



US President Donald Trump has warned that his policies will be "violently" overturned if the Democrats win November's mid-term elections. He told Evangelical leaders that the vote was a "referendum" on freedom of speech and religion, and that these were threatened by "violent people". He appealed to conservative Christian groups for help, saying they were one vote away from "losing everything".

Trump knows his base, and it is full of fear.

It's one thing to scream about a War on Christmas, but it's another thing to say you will be harmed/killed if the GOP doesn't win this election.

His base will actually believe this. How will it react?



During the meeting, Mr Trump said the mid-term elections were not just a referendum on him but also "on your religion, it's a referendum on free speech and the First Amendment [guaranteeing basic freedoms]". "It's not a question of like or dislike, it's a question that they will overturn everything that we've done and they will do it quickly and violently. And violently. There is violence. When you look at Antifa - these are violent people," he said.

Making heavily armed people terrified does not generally have good outcomes.

America is heading in the direction of another Harpers Ferry. After that comes Ft. Sumter. https://t.co/5PmwlwcdSQ — Steve King (@SteveKingIA) 24 June 2018

If you never visit right-wing blogs you may not know what he's talking about, so let me give you an example of how this was received.



Are we going to see violence in the streets of our major cities following the mid-term elections in November? President Trump seems to believe that this is a very real possibility, and he shared his thoughts on this with a group of top evangelical leaders on Monday night. Previously, those that have warned that a “civil war” is coming to America have been heavily criticized, but perhaps people will start taking this more seriously now that President Trump is saying it. Of course we have already seen dozens of attacks on Trump supporters all over the nation, but the mainstream media largely ignores those because it does not fit the narratives that they are pushing.

Even on the mainstream right-wing Bloomberg you see articles like this: What Democratic Rage Would Look Like

“I think we’re at the beginning of a soft civil war.”

What Trump just did is dangerous.