After a journalist warned of a possible Republican dictatorship, Sen. J.D. Vance contacted law enforcement, requesting a possible criminal investigation.

If Robert Kagan hoped to generate some conversation with a lengthy Washington Post opinion piece last week, he succeeded. Kagan, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and an editor at large for the Post, presented a provocative warning to the public, arguing that the United States faces the possibility of a “dictatorship” if Donald Trump is returned to the White House.

Sen. J.D. Vance — a former Trump critic turned sycophant — evidently wasn’t persuaded by Kagan’s case. On the contrary, the Ohio Republican this week sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and Secretary of State Antony Blinken seeking some kind of investigation into the published piece. From the senator’s letter:

“I wish to address to your attention a recent opinion piece published in the pages of a widely-circulated American newspaper. Based on my review of public charging documents that the Department of Justice has filed in courts of law, I suspect that one or both of you might characterize this article as an invitation to ‘insurrection,’ a manifestation of criminal ‘conspiracy,’ or an attempt to bring about civil war.”

In other words, Vance, a Yale-educated lawyer, believes the Post op-ed might have crossed a legal line.

Isn’t the duty of a newspaper to “comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable?” This senator is way too comfortable - with a dictatorship.

    • spaceghoti@lemmy.one
      191·
      1 year ago

      One in which opposition is emnity, and when you you can’t counter the truth with obfuscation you use any and every means at your disposal to suppress speech.

      Vance is one of the people helping pave the way toward dictatorship.

    • Endorkend@kbin.social
      6·
      1 year ago

      And doing so while being in the party that covers fascist and racist speech with “freedumb of speech”.

      Protecting a guy that literally repeatedly previously and as recent as LAST WEEK said he wants to be a dictator.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      21·
      1 year ago

      I haven’t searched for it, but I’m sure someone who wants to can confirm for me that J. D. Vance has complained about someone or other being “cancelled” at least once.

  • Boddhisatva@lemmy.world
    421·
    1 year ago

    Basic GOP projection. TFG incited an insurrection so they have to accuse someone else of doing that too.

  • TheJims@lemmy.world
    35·
    1 year ago

    It is the Republican Party’s number one priority to comfort and shelter trump from any and all criticism. What a sad pathetic sniveling spectacle the Republican Party has become. Pussies.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    261·
    1 year ago

    I suspect that one or both of you might characterize this article as an invitation to ‘insurrection,’

    Hmm…

    I’m pretty sure Trump told his people at a rally to fight like hell and then told them to go over to the Capitol and then an insurrection happened.

    And yet Vance isn’t suing Trump. Weird.

  • vivadanang@lemm.eeEnglish
    21·
    1 year ago

    my god this is so fucking stupid it burns. Kagan’s not just some rando conservative, this fuckwit is neocon royalty for helping the Bushes justify Iraq and more. The idea that JD fucking VANCE needs to warn the US Gov about possible insurrection and treason while he’s licking the toe fungus from Trump’s feet is wildly hilarious in a dark irony kinda manner.

    What in the actual fuck.

  • Hegar@kbin.social
    10·
    1 year ago

    It’s scary that Republicans are committed to overthrowing our government, but if our last few decades of attempted regime change are anything to go by, they’ll fail and we’ll be left with a brutally divided sectarian state riddled with violence and crumbling infrastructure.

  • CADmonkey@lemmy.world
    9·
    1 year ago

    “If you don’t let Donald Trump do whatever he wants, we’re gonna start a civil war!” 😭😭😭