An America You Can Be Proud Of As Tens of Thousands Storm Town Halls to Demand Answers

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It’s been a depressing few months after our country seemed to have elected a Russian Trojan Horse with an aversion to knowledge and an affinity for emotional tantrums better suited to a two year old.

We looked around at our neighbors and family and wondered why and how they could have voted for this person, who has made our country a laughing stoke around the globe.

But take heart. Here’s a round up of patriots of whom you can be proud, storming town halls to demand answers from Obamacare to Russia’s influence over our election, courtesy of Bradd Jaffy of NBC News.

We’ll start with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) looking all, ‘Nope I don’t do this thing were you people get to talk back.’

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“Angry constituent gives Mitch McConnell the what for,” Jaffy wrote above this video.

“Angry constituents confront Chuck Grassley in Iowa: ‘If it wasn’t for Obamacare, we wouldn’t be able to afford insurance!’†Jaffy wrote above this clip.

“Crowd erupts at Joni Ernst event in rural Iowa,” Jaffy commented.

Here’s a patriot who screams back, “You guys wasted a lot of money on Benghazi! Waste a little on Trump!”

“Crowd asks Rep. Steve Womack (R-AR) to investigate Trump/Russia. Wait for it…,” Jaffy teases.

In Chicago, an estimated 18,000 callers participated in a telephone town hall with Rep. Peter Roskam.

This is but a small taste of what your U.S. congressional representatives and senators are facing around this country. Some people deal with it better than others.

Republican Rep. Tom Emmer of Minnesota isn’t going to be tolerating any of your free speech nonsense. If anyone shouts or chants at his town hall, he says will cancel the event. So there.

Emmer’s behavior reeks of the Republican approach to the people, as Republican Senators Toomey and Cruz made it impossible for constituents to even call local offices to leave a message, when their D.C. phone systems were broken, perhaps due to an overwhelming number of calls.

On the other side of the coin we have Senators like Democrat Cory Booker of New Jersey, whose staff have gone out of their way to try to make it easier for the people to share their opinions and thoughts, by being available on social media in addition to traditional contact methods.

This might seem like a partisan thing, but as Jaffy pointed out, the angry about Obamacare guy “is a pig farmer whom Grassley greets as an old friend.”

Paid protester? Not so much. Try these are real people with real problems, and they aren’t buying the Republican lies about Obamacare or excuses for letting Russia undermine our country via the Republican President.

Republicans thought they could curl their lips at the people who pay their bills, but they are getting a lesson in accountability that has been a long time in coming. The smug contempt of assumed privilege isn’t disappearing just yet, but give it time.

American patriots are out in force, and they don’t show any signs of weakening their objections and protests.

The only real question left is why don’t Republicans care one whit about this country, the integrity of our elections, an aggressive and antagonistic foreign power interfering in our election, and Donald Trump’s clear connections to Russia. America first? Not by a long shot.

The narrative of angry Americans demanding answers from cowardly, dodging Republicans is sticking because with winning elections comes accountability, and governing is not something this modern day Republican Party does well.

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