'Lobsters in a boiling pot': Ex-GOP lawmaker warns MAGA plot for violence is taking shape
Raw StoryFormer President Donald Trump's loyalists are laying out an agenda for violence, warned former Rep. David Jolly on Tuesday's edition of MSNBC's "The Beat" — and American voters need to wake up and wipe them out up and down the ballot. "It seems every day we're reporting about a new threat of violence or retribution coming from Trump or MAGA world," said anchor and legal analyst Katie Phang. Read also: Former Republican congressman David Jolly makes brutal point about the GOP Senate and Jeffrey Epstein "I think the trendline is what's so terrifying," he continued. "In some ways, we were kind of lobsters in a boiling pot, because where this was maybe talked about among some activists in the shadows in 2016, you saw this group of leaders, the John Yoos and others and candidates like the North Carolina gubernatorial candidate, they didn't really emerge with power in the Trump administration until that last chapter when Donald Trump realized all of these people will do my bidding for me.