Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin (R) believes there will be a bloody clash between “tyrants” and “patriots” if Hillary Clinton wins this year’s presidential election.
“I want us to be able to fight ideologically, mentally, spiritually, economically, so that we don’t have to do it physically,” the tea party politician said in a Saturday speech at the Values Voters Summit, an annual gathering of religious conservatives. “But that may, in fact, be the case.”
Bevin said he was asked in a recent if the nation could “survive” a Clinton presidency, and he responded that it would be “possible” but at a great “price.”
“The roots of the tree of liberty are watered by what?” Bevin continued. “The blood, of who? The tyrants to be sure, but who else? The patriots. Whose blood will be shed? It may be that of those in this room. It might be that of our children and grandchildren.”
Though these comments sounded like a rallying cry, Bevin later told the Lexington Herald Leader that he was referring to the sacrifices made by members of the U.S. military.
“Today we have thousands of men and women in uniform fighting for us overseas and they need our full backing,” he said in a statement. “We cannot be complacent about the determination of radical Islamic extremists to destroy our freedoms.”
A number of prominent conservatives have issued similarly dire or violent warnings of what may come if Donald Trump loses on Election Day.
Michele Bachmann, a former Republican congresswoman who now advises Trump on religious issues and foreign policy, predicted that 2016 would be “the last election” if Clinton wins because demographic shifts would render a future GOP victory impossible. Trump agreed with Bachmann in a September interview, saying people “flowing across the border” would become legalized and vote to keep Republicans out of the White House.
Bevin’s remarks also had echoes of longtime Trump ally Roger Stone, who hs said there would be a “bloodbath” if Clinton is elected.
Watch a clip of Bevin’s speech below via Right Wing Watch:
Holy crap. This monster should be locked up. I truly don’t know which category he ‘thinks’ he belongs in (patriots or tyrants) but I know what I think. These people are ‘my way or the highway’ kind of people, NOT Americans who work for the good of their country.
This is a clear, if conditional, threat of political violence–otherwise known as terrorism. It has to be called out and confronted. I remember very well how during the Bush v. Gore limbo, the MSM basically folded in the face of implicit violence threatened by the right and essentially legitimized Bush’s power grab. It cannot happen again. Trump has to be called out on this by every journalist, every day. This isn’t just hot air. It represents a direct threat to constitutional democracy in this country. Nor is it just one whacko. This is the voice of an elected Republican, speaking for his party. Enough is enough.
EDIT: I just want to add: Trump has repeatedly suggested or implied that if he loses in November, it will be because the election has been rigged. He is essentially delegitimizing an adverse election result and so laying the groundwork for a ‘legitimate’ use of political violence that Bevin is envisaging. Trump has to be asked straight out: If Clinton wins the election, will you accept the legitimacy of her presidency? Do you deplore Governor Bevin’s talk about possible political violence? Do you actually believe in American democracy? He will not do well with these questions, believe me. And it will make the stakes of this election very clear.
No, you dumb ass. If Trump gets in and he unleashes the racists on the rest of us, that tree of liberty will be watered with the blood of you and your adopted black children. That you think you and yours are somehow immune is both hilarious and sad.
Is he threatening civil war? Is he going to be at the head of the Kentucky national guard?
Obama better move the bullion ASAP.