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Ron Simmons

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Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
Ep 1341 | ABC and NYT Normalize Leftist Calls for Violence | Ron Simmons

So anyway, this was several years ago, but that was kind of funny.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
Ep 1341 | ABC and NYT Normalize Leftist Calls for Violence | Ron Simmons

The guy also had, and we have some posts that he talked about on Blue Sky, Blue Sky, which is a liberal kind of Twitter thing.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
Ep 1341 | ABC and NYT Normalize Leftist Calls for Violence | Ron Simmons

He just, he said, you know, this is, and this is some of the stuff that you hear.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
Ep 1341 | ABC and NYT Normalize Leftist Calls for Violence | Ron Simmons

We put a known traitor in the office who ran on revenge, who screwed up the COVID response and has known connections to the murderous guy in the Kremlin, although he used different language than that.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
Ep 1341 | ABC and NYT Normalize Leftist Calls for Violence | Ron Simmons

I mean, but it's the same thing that you hear in some of these protests.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
Ep 1341 | ABC and NYT Normalize Leftist Calls for Violence | Ron Simmons

Right.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
Ep 1341 | ABC and NYT Normalize Leftist Calls for Violence | Ron Simmons

And this leads me.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
Ep 1341 | ABC and NYT Normalize Leftist Calls for Violence | Ron Simmons

I just got to tell you guys that when when I was in the state legislature.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
Ep 1341 | ABC and NYT Normalize Leftist Calls for Violence | Ron Simmons

I had dinner one night with a friend that I had made there, a guy named Rusty Kelly.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
Ep 1341 | ABC and NYT Normalize Leftist Calls for Violence | Ron Simmons

And he brought a couple of guys with him to the dinner.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
Ep 1341 | ABC and NYT Normalize Leftist Calls for Violence | Ron Simmons

And they were former Secret Service people.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
Ep 1341 | ABC and NYT Normalize Leftist Calls for Violence | Ron Simmons

And this would have been in probably 2015.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
Ep 1341 | ABC and NYT Normalize Leftist Calls for Violence | Ron Simmons

And even then, what they were telling me is they said, Ron,

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
Ep 1341 | ABC and NYT Normalize Leftist Calls for Violence | Ron Simmons

people that are on the more extreme sides of both parties, whether it's the right or the left, going from talking

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
Ep 1341 | ABC and NYT Normalize Leftist Calls for Violence | Ron Simmons

to shooting is not a big step for them.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
Ep 1341 | ABC and NYT Normalize Leftist Calls for Violence | Ron Simmons

Different than maybe how you and I would.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
Ep 1341 | ABC and NYT Normalize Leftist Calls for Violence | Ron Simmons

We may argue vehemently and talk and talk and talk and disagree and all that type of stuff.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
Ep 1341 | ABC and NYT Normalize Leftist Calls for Violence | Ron Simmons

But the idea of taking that argument to the next level of bombing or shooting or harming someone is just not in our psyche.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
Ep 1341 | ABC and NYT Normalize Leftist Calls for Violence | Ron Simmons

It's not our vocabulary.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
Ep 1341 | ABC and NYT Normalize Leftist Calls for Violence | Ron Simmons

But these people that become radicalized