When the Republicans repudiate (fill in the blank) instead of embracing it...
violence, insurrection, rigging elections, disregarding elections, Putin, racism, bigotry, hatred of women, hatred of LBGTQ, hatred of Jews or Muslims, hatred of immigrants, hatred of democracy, hatred of democrats, not applying the rule of law to them, and a whole lot of others...

Terrorists? Were all the German Nazis terrorists?

Sure took him a very long time to figure out that these obstructionists regressive Republican fascists are now terrorists!!!

They have always been terrorists owned outright by the wealthy and their corporations!!!

Mr. Piper is an apologist for right wing extremists. Mr. Piper can fuck off.

Most Republicans today either believe Cheato's Big Lie or are so afraid of being tarred and feathered by their own that they parrot the lie or remain silent. These people represent an existential threat to American democracy.

They may not all be terrorists, but their silence for sure shows their support of it..

[mediabiasfactcheck.com]

Someone showing blind Fealty or blind obedience to any one person, or a so called ‘god’ is what I would say is dangerous in a sense, regardless of what their political stripes are.

I have several co workers and a number of family members who are Republicans, and none of them support extremist positions such as total abortion bans, for example. They merely oppose it, and that is 100% good.

Extremists on both sides are dangerous, I don’t care if it’s ANTIFA, Black Lives Matter, QANON, MAGA. The question that really must be asked is, What and where have these people come from and what brought them to believe, or be willing to believe, downright nonsense.

He keeps saying that this comment is being made to republicans as "half of the American people" when in actuality republicans are at best a third of registered voters and no where near half the American people.

The rest of the article is nothing but a straw man word salad filled with right-wing definitions of the other sides policies that purposely misrepresent the other side. That's just another republican tactic to avoid actually addressing the policies of the other side while pretending that their misrepresentations are relevant and significant.

Not all Republicans. Only those who kowtow to Donald Trump and his ilk in perpetuating the Big Lie, and further damage this country through the illegal removal and mishandling of classified documents. Only those who directly, or indirectly through their support, plot to kidnap governors and storm Capitols. Only those who call or write letters to election officials, judges and politicians with direct or implicit threats to their lives and those of their families.

The Republican party has been hijacked by a crude and boorish branch of extremism. It is a vestige of what it once was under statesmen like Eisenhower, Reagan and McCain. There was a previous era when a virus made its way through the Republican party and infected the nation with the disease of McCarthyism. Today’s Trumpists are a much more threatening disease because of their numbers and their willingness to go to extreme lengths in order to retain power.

Biden was right to publicly acknowledge MAGA Republicans for the extremists they truly are. Trumpism at its core seeks to set the clock back more than half a century, in their so-called effort to Make America Great Again which is code for make America white again!

It is an opinion piece, in a conservative leaning newspaper.

I think republicans are just very willing to ignore facts, such as Trump lost the election and there was no massive voter fraud, and act on their emotions, rather than reason, which causes many of them to do things which a fully rational person would consider to be "over the top" at best, and terrorism at worst.

Compound the unwillingness to view facts rationally with the religious ferver or the religious right and Christian nationalists, and I can see why many might view republicans as being domestic terrorists.

I myself think most republicans don't advocate violence, but remain silent when their fellows do get violent, because they want to fit in and belong with their fellow republicans. I saw the republican party was changing back in the 1980's and I left the poarty because it no longer represented my values.

The party really changed in 1968, as Nixon realized that when Truman integrated the military and Johnson signed the Civil Rights acts, the racists were disillusioned with the democrats, and so he implemented "the southern strategy" to mobilize the racists for republicans. Then in 1980, Reagan brought in religious broadcast leaders. With Nixon they said they were all about "law and order" and "states rights" and under Reagan is was "family values".

By the time we got to Trump, they abandoned their pretenses of "law and order" and "family values" and were headed towards outright fascism.

To give you an idea of ust how much the republican arty has changed, here is hte 1956 republican platform.

Or terrorist wannabes.

No, but very few aren't.