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Republicans terrified of crossing Trump due to physical threats, Democrat says
(www.theguardian.com)
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I wonder if we will have a night of long knives
I am hoping for a 9 Thermidor
tl;dr Robespierre and his buddies had been doing a Reign of Terror and guillotining all sorts of his former allies in the Assembly for a bit, when Robespierre gives a speech to them and says (basically) "I know some of you in here are counterrevolutionary traitors, and I will have your heads chopped off too soon enough, but I haven't decided who yet, so you better all be really nice to me." That makes a bunch of people in that legislature say (basically) "This crazy little asshole is going to kill us all one by one if we let him, I hate you almost as much as I hate him but let's work together and stop this already." Within a few days, Robespierre was dead and France had a new government, which was pretty terrible and got overthrown by another government (which was also pretty terrible, and etc., because French Revolution), but it chopped off fewer heads than Robespierre's did.
One can dream but I am not so optimistic