Eric Swalwell’s cocky tweet claiming ‘lunatic’ Ben Shapiro a ‘reason for red flag laws’ comes back to biteJune 13, 2022 | Kevin Haggerty
Establishment Republicans are a middling lot who have attained and retained their side of the Capitol Hill power dynamic by ostensibly doing the least amount of work to further the agenda of the right while acting like a sieve against the unrelenting pressure of their progressive opposition.
So, as the RINOs of the party slide toward the left courtesy of the Overton Window, it only seems appropriate that, where Democrats so often have their own past statements raised to dispute their current posturing, Republican leaders would get slammed for straying from conservative values by a gun-grabbing ideologue.
In 2019, Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) had his eyes on a 2020 presidential bid and chose to stand out from the pack by declaring himself “the only candidate proposing that we ban and buy back every single assault weapon in this nation.” Later that same year he touted the need for the kind of red flag laws that 10 Republican lawmakers just agreed to help fund, and defenders of the Second Amendment are making certain to slam those senators for their obvious betrayal.
“Did you see this promise from a leading Democrat that he would use ‘red flag’ laws to silence conservative opponents?” Townhall columnist Kurt Schlichter asked, tagging Republican Sens. John Cornyn (Texas) and Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) while retweeting Swalwell’s post from 2019 where he called The Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro a lunatic for supporting the right to self-defense.
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