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The State Legislature's Threat to Shelby County

The state legislature is making threats to like Shelby County about, I forget the exact special election appointment process in Tennessee. There was a perspective among some on the right that this, why was this okay, but when we storm, you know, state legislature buildings or the Capitol, it's an insurrection. Yeah, pretty amazing false equivalency. That was sort of the perspective that was being seen,. It was seen like, this is just as disruptive or there should be some kind of response to this. And I think that’s why it rose to this level that a few years ago, maybe it wouldn't have, maybe we would have seen just those censures for this kind of disruption

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