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Rep. Kevin McCarthy shoved a congressman in a “clean shot to the kidneys” and Sen. Markwayne Mullin challenged a union leader to a brawl.
Mullin later said more members of Congress should normalize physical fights in order to maintain “respect” for the institution.
Historian Joanne Freeman : "There’s not a lot of respect, particularly on the right, for Congress ".
John Sutter : We are living in such a moment of crisis of accountability in which no one wants to be held accountable for anything.
He says most of the goals around this type of behavior, both today and in the period I write about, are not to be violent. It’s to frighten people off. To silence them and force them into compliance, he says. It's all about manhood and power. It doesn’t represent more people losing what they feel that they deserve.
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