Hakeem Jeffries' divisive rhetoric about Civil War and Republicans, who defeated the slave holders

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), during a ridiculous "sit-in" on the steps of the Capitol, where he wasted even more time since his 25-hour rambling, invoked Civil War-era rhetoric to portray Democrats as "patriots" and the Republican party as "traitors."

If we were to take his words as truth, then we would have to believe that Jeffries is in favor of slavery from which the Republican Party defeated the Democrat slave-holders in the Civil War. Of course he didn't mean that, which only shows that he's an idiot in a suit.

Jeffries' nonsensical comments came during a staged protest on the steps of Congress, where he was initially joined by Sen. Cory Spartacus Booker (D-NJ) and then accompanied by several other Democrats and their colleagues who were squandering their work hours to waste taxpayer money.

Rev. William Barber joined the exercise in futility. He discussed putting “principles over party," triggering Jeffries to recall an old quote by President Ulysses S. Grant at the onset of the Civil War.

“Reminds me of a letter that Ulysses Grant was said to have sent at the start of the Civil War,” Jeffries said.

"At that moment of great turmoil in the country, the country literally tearing itself apart," he set the scene before adding, "What Grant said is, 'There are but two parties in America right now - Patriots and traitors."

Grant led the Union Army to victory in the American Civil War. He was a Republican.

On April 12, 1861, as the Confederacy attacked Fort Sumter, Grant's reported quote was: “There are but two parties now: traitors and patriots. And I want hereafter to be ranked with the latter.”

Jeffires misses the point: the patriots were those in the party of Lincoln, the Republicans, who were fighting the Democrats in the South in order to end slavery. 

Facts are uncomfortable for the Left. For example, Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago has a plaque on one of their buildings that refers to Abraham Lincoln as a "Democrat." Everyone with a brain knows old Honest Abe was a Republican, but the plaque, written in 1905 on the Frank Lloyd Wright Building reads: "This building is dedicated to public service honoring the memory of Abraham Lincoln Democrat."

They need to steal the accomplishments from the GOP to make themselves sound viable.

Jeffries using a quote from a Republican who fought against the Democrats in the South that supported the institution of slavery to portray the modern GOP as "traitors" is a strange choice, but perhaps he was just trying to pull the wool over the eyes of ignorant constituents.

"Hakeem Jeffries isn't wrong," one man wrote. "He's just confused about which of these two parties he and his ilk belong to."

This isn't the first time Jeffries has tried to instigate violence since President Trump entered the Oval Office.

Ten days after the inauguration, the New York Democrat vowed they were "gonna fight" the President's agenda "in the streets."

Why is it that politicians are able to get away with calls for violence? The U.S. Constitution is quite clear about what is free speech, and this does not qualify as such.

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