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National Review ran a piece in which it alleges that Democrats are culpable in attempts on Trump's life because of "threat to democracy" language. It's hard to reconcile that with JD Vance having gone on Face The Nation this week and, when asked if he regrets that his false claims about migrants stealing and eating pets have resulted in bomb threats at schools and hospitals in Springfield, Ohio, responded that, "We don't believe, Margaret, in the Heckler's Veto in this country."
Also that's a wild, idiotic misrepresentation of the Heckler's Veto. The Heckler's Veto is already regularly misrepresented when it's invoked to refer to shouting down--the use of especially cacophonous collective expression to drown out disfavored speech--and the existing term for that is plenty fine, but Vance's misrepresentation is just aggressively stupid. The Heckler's Veto is when a heckler or hecklers, an offended party or group, compels state action against expression which is deemed offensive. An example would be Moms For Liberty getting the state to pull books they don't like out of public and school libraries.
Also that's a wild, idiotic misrepresentation of the Heckler's Veto. The Heckler's Veto is already regularly misrepresented when it's invoked to refer to shouting down--the use of especially cacophonous collective expression to drown out disfavored speech--and the existing term for that is plenty fine, but Vance's misrepresentation is just aggressively stupid. The Heckler's Veto is when a heckler or hecklers, an offended party or group, compels state action against expression which is deemed offensive. An example would be Moms For Liberty getting the state to pull books they don't like out of public and school libraries.
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