re: #61 Charles

Uh … the “punch back twice as hard” line is not even remotely about hitting demonstrators. From the context of the article, it’s clear he’s talking metaphorically about hitting back at “critics of the Democratic plan.”

I have no doubt that the President didn’t mean punch back in the literal sense. But to many of the goons in the union who follow him slavishly, they may be too stupid to realize that he wasn’t being literal. After all, a good deal of union “organizing involves actual violence or the threat of violence. So maybe the POTUS needs to make it clear to his own people what he actually meant.