“As I stated at the time, Clay Higgins’ grotesque use of death threats on Facebook appeal to his sense of himself as a tough guy. He does it to feed his personal violence fetish, much like when he stood before cameras and talked about hunting Black teens like animals in 2016.
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We now know, of course, that Clay got scared after that incident and begged the sheriff to give him extra body-armor and to take the markings off his official truck. It seems, history is now repeating itself.

Clay, as with most cowards, is far too eager
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to make violent threats without considering the consequences. And like most cowards, when the consequences come around he goes into hiding. It is due to the dumb self-serving rhetoric of Clay Higgins that this Oct. 3 NFAC demonstration is now happening. The people of
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his district, including many honest, hard-working law enforcement and first responders already exhausted by a pandemic & a major hurricane, now have one more thing to deal with because Clay has to, at all costs, maintain his persona and his political image as a spur-jangling
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cartoon cowboy. Now, he is back in hiding. Not commenting to reporters, Not speaking to the public. And definitely not doing the one thing he should do to put a stop to all of this now. That is, to man-up, and apologize. Apologize for his vile rhetoric. Apologize for his
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glorification of violence. Apologize to all decent, law abiding Americans, who don’t want to see violence or threats of violence coming from anyone. Left or Right. White or Black. Apologize for the harm he is doing this democracy when he can't even vote in favor of a peaceful
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transfer of power. But Clay, being a coward, will likely say nothing. He will hide as this march comes and goes and soon thereafter he will pop back up on FB, barking at shadows in hopes that some will be foolish enough to mistake that for strength. It is time to take away
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Clay’s microphone. That is why I am running for Congress. So we can start to work together, again, to find common-ground and solutions that make all of our lives better. It's what we want as Louisianans. It's what we want as Americans. It's what we demand as a people."
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