'Republicans are terrified': Ex-Tea Party lawmaker unleashes profane 'meltdown' on GOP

Republicans are terrified of the upcoming No Kings protests, and they are showing it, according to former Tea Party lawmaker Joe Walsh.

Walsh wrote about the GOP's fear in a new "meltdown" post called "Hate America? Bulls---." In the essay, Walsh argues that "Republicans are terrified of the No Kings movement."

Walsh took aim at the whole Republican Party, but named one GOP lawmaker in particular: Tom Emmer.

"F--- you, Republicans. And respectfully, f--- you, Congressman Tom Emmer. Republican Congressman Tom Emmer came out today for a second time and accused Democrats of being terrorists. That’s what he said. He accused Democrats of being terrorists," the ex-congressman wrote. "Now look, this is part of what they’re doing. And I hope everybody listening to me is planning on being somewhere on Saturday—this Saturday, October 18—marching and rallying at a No Kings rally."

According to Walsh, Republicans are trying to keep people from attending the rallies.

"But damn, these Republicans, man, they are on a roll right now trying to suppress attendance, trying to get people at No Kings rallies to be arrested. That’s what they’re doing," he wrote. "Speaker Mike Johnson and all the Republicans, team Trump, everybody—every Republican—is calling this a 'hate America' thing. Everybody going to No Kings rallies is Antifa, they said. They hate America... Hate America? I’m rallying on Sunday to reaffirm my belief in that basic American principle that we are not ruled by kings. We don’t have kings in America."

Walsh really went off on Emmer and the idea that Dems who attend these rallies are "terrorists."

"But this is what just f------ sent me over the edge again today. And it’s not the first time he said it, and he’s not the only Republican to say it. Let me say this again: From Speaker Johnson to Trump to JD Vance to every Republican, they’re all on the same page. They are all saying the same thing about everybody who’s going to a No Kings rally on Saturday," Walsh wrote. "They are scared s-------- about this No Kings day. They are scared of this movement. They’re scared of how big and powerful it is. They’re trying to suppress it. They’re trying to suppress it, tamp down attendance, and they’re also laying the predicate, the groundwork to rough up rallygoers, to make arrests."

Read the full piece here.