Hans Rustad 
Reza Aslan er amerikaner med iransk bakgrunn. Han konverterte til kristendommen og så tilbake til islam. Han har ledet tv-programmet Believer på CNN, men det ble nedlagt etter at Aslan skrev noen voldsomme angrep på Trump.
Stemmer på venstresiden i USA truer med vold hvis Trump skulle nominere en erstatter for Ruth Bader Ginsburg før valget 3. november.
«If they even TRY to replace RBG we burn the entire f—–g thing down,» author Reza Aslan tweeted. He later responded to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s vow to hold a vote on President Trump’s nominee. «Over our dead bodies, literally,» he tweeted.
En forfatter truet likedan med å brenne alt ned hvis Trump skulle våge å finne en ny dommer.
Author Aaron Gouveia similarly blasted McConnell’s statement, saying: «F–k no. Burn it all down.»
A Canadian political science professor called for arson, prompting accusations he made a terroristic threat. «Burn Congress down before letting Trump try to appoint anyone to SCOTUS,» Waterloo professor Emmett MacFarlane tweeted.
Writer Beau Willimon threatened: «We’re shutting this country down if Trump and McConnell try to ram through an appointment before the election.»
A member of Wisconsin’s ethics commission, Scott Ross, ordered Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., to «burn it all down» if he couldn’t stop McConnell. «F—–g A, Ed. If you can’t shut it down, burn it down,» he said.
«If McConnell jams someone through, which he will, there will be riots,» warned GQ writer Laura Bassett.
Retorikken er krigersk:
Washington Post blogger Greg Sargent agreed, saying that Senate Democrats would have «no choice but to nuke the [legislative] filibuster and try to pack the court.»
«Not doing this won’t be an option,» he tweeted.
«[L]eftists promise violence and ‘burning it all dow'» if they don’t get what they want. Then their enablers in media mock you for worrying that there might be violence and ‘burning it all down’ when the leftists don’t get what they want,» Gutfeld said.
