{"id":1738795,"date":"2022-11-15T03:17:30","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T08:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1738795"},"modified":"2022-11-15T03:17:36","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T08:17:36","slug":"where-was-all-the-right-wing-political-violence-democrats-warned-would-plague-the-midterms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/where-was-all-the-right-wing-political-violence-democrats-warned-would-plague-the-midterms\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Was All The Right-Wing Political Violence Democrats Warned Would Plague The Midterms?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhere-was-all-the-right-wing-political-violence-democrats-warned-would-plague-the-midterms%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1738795&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Months before the 2022 midterm elections took place, the corporate media saturated their publications with headlines meant to frighten Americans and get voters to buy into their preferred narrative.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConcerns of Violence grow as Election Day nears,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/11\/02\/1132822805\/election-violence-concerns-voting-threats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">proclaimed<\/a> NPR.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA spiral of violence and fear is creating angst for many voters ahead of the midterm elections,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2022-election\/spiral-violence-fear-creating-angst-many-voters-ahead-midterm-election-rcna55740\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a> NBC News.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump\u2019s \u201cBig Lie\u201d was stirring up rage-filled conservatives who were going to take out their anger on poll workers and voters, or so said the fearmongers. The riots at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, were just the beginning of a red wave of blood and terror, they told us.<\/p>\n<p>None of that happened. Instead, the left brought the 2022 midterm elections the Big Scare, driven by an overheated corporate media and a Democratic Party that used its usual media tools to help them \u201csave democracy\u201d by scaring the hell out of voters.<\/p>\n<p>A review of news coverage from battleground states declared ripe for political violence finds few incidents of actual threats, let alone actual violence on Election Day. Observers on both sides of the aisle report last week\u2019s elections functioned peacefully and well.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not to say some election officials around the country haven\u2019t endured hostile communications, including threatening language, since the bitter 2020 presidential election. But even the Biden administration, which did everything it could to gin up the tired insurrection narrative, noted just days before the election that \u201cno specific credible threats\u201d had been identified by law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmericans should feel safe going to the polls. It is important for Americans to do so,\u201d White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said on Election Day eve.<\/p>\n<p>As is often the case, the flack\u2019s words did not comport with President Joe Biden\u2019s fiery speech less than a week before the election when he urged Americans to \u201cnot allow the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skynews.com.au\/world-news\/united-states\/joe-biden-labels-republicans-dark-forces-that-thirst-for-power-amid-fears-lingering-political-divisions-could-overshadow-us-midterms\/news-story\/5baf4f7b2674fafce1d74173b5598a3b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dark forces<\/a> that thirst for power\u201d to destroy American democracy. Those \u201cdark forces,\u201d of course, are his political enemies \u2014 also known as Republicans.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Spiraling\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>Fear porn peddlers did their job well. <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/election-day-tests-patience-assumptions-note\/story?id=92811445\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">An ABC News\/Washington Post<\/a> poll not long before Election Day found a whopping 88 percent of adults were worried political divisions in the country are so raw that there\u2019s an increased risk of politically motivated violence. Such \u201cangst for many voters\u201d is understandable amid screaming headlines about a \u201cspiral of violence and fear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As we\u2019ve learned from recent election cycles, polling isn\u2019t merely used to neutrally report on public opinion; it\u2019s often used to shape public perception. The Big Scare did just that.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe could be six days away from losing our rule of law,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/11\/03\/historian-beschloss-blasted-on-twitter-for-comments-about-biden-maga-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">warned<\/a> historian Michael Beschloss, who wondered whether \u201cour children will be arrested and conceivably killed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In battleground Michigan, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/show\/threat-of-political-violence-looms-over-several-races-in-michigan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PBS reported<\/a> that a threat of political violence loomed over several races.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cElection officials in Michigan are especially worried as the midterms approach and multiple election deniers are on the ballot,\u201d Laura Barr\u00f3n-L\u00f3pez reported.<\/p>\n<p>She interviewed Cheryl Rottmann, city clerk for Madison Heights, a suburb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat operatives and the corporate media tried to scare voters by insisting the 2022 midterms would be plagued by right-wing violence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":656,"featured_media":1738798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1738795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1738795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1738798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1738795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1738795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1738795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}