re: Advocate refers to the people at the capital as a MOB

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"Oh, you're not going to use the mob word here," CNN anchor Brooke Baldwin bemoaned.

Baldwin's colleague Don Lemon got in a shouting match with a guest because he described Kavanaugh protesters as a mob.

"That's not a mob," Lemon declared.

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Over and over again, American conservatives have raised the specter of the angry mob to justify their law-and-order policies and to delegitimize the social justice movements of their opponents — drawing a false parallel between social activism and mob violence that is itself a disservice to democracy.

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