New Democrat motto: "Nuke them all!"

Eric Swalwell, a Democrat from California, said that if the American people were to try and overthrow a tyrannical government they'd lose because the government would use nuclear weapons on its own people.  He said this to ridicule the idea that an armed population is a deterrent to tyranny.

While Swalwell wasn't being serious his comments reveal a lot about himself and Democrats in general.

First his claim that an armed citizenry couldn't overthrow a government demonstrates an amazing lack of historical knowledge.  He apparently is unaware of the many examples from just the last century--Vietnam and China for example--where revolts by the people overthrew powerful governments.

Second his belief that the people shouldn't have guns shows that he believes that power flows not from the people but from the state; i.e. from him and his political cronies.

Third if a Republican were to joke about using nukes against say Antifa the #FakeNews media would be waging an unending and unrelenting war to get that Republican to resign.  Yet because Swalwell is a leftist Democrat the vast majority of Americans will never even know what he said.

Fourth it shows that he, like all leftists, don't believe in the rule of law.  If he wants to repeal the 2nd Amendment there is a well defined process to do so.  But because he knows that he can't get the political support across the country to do that he's perfectly willing to ignore the law and the Constitution and use activist judges and legislation to disarm the people.

It's clear that the Democrats winning the House has emboldened them to show more of what they really believe in rather than the lies that they run for election on which is a good thing.  Just as the insane objections to Kavanaugh energies Republicans for the midterms 2 years of unhinged hostility to the Constitution and the American people by Democrats will help us keep them from getting more power in the next election.