Deafening media silence on mob rule in Wisconsin

The GOP could bypass the restraining order simply by voting on the bill again. But Wisconsin Republican Party Executive Director Mark Jefferson told the Wall Street Journal that’s unlikely.

“Protesters have congregated at the homes of Republican legislators, surrounded their cars and jeered at them as they walk to work, Mr. Jefferson said,” the Journal reported. “‘It was such a fiasco before, they’re probably not eager to get spit on again,’ he said.”

In a liberal democracy, such brownshirt tactics should be anathema. If we allow them to succeed in Wisconsin, we can expect them increasingly to poison democratic deliberations across the land.