NEW CIVILITY WATCH: Dems booted from Ohio County Fair over Trump buttons, sheriff alerting Secret Service.

The Ashland County sheriff is planning to contact the U.S. Secret Service after “offensive” buttons were found at the Democratic Party booth at the Ashland County Fair in Ohio, resulting in the group’s removal from the fairgrounds.

The buttons at the Ashland County Democrats booth had messages about President Donald Trump like “Is he dead yet?” and “One day, we will wake up to his obituary” alongside “He’s not my president” and “We will survive,” Fox 8 News reports.

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The Ashland County Sheriff’s Office is investigating, Fox 8 reports. Sheriff Kurt Schneider plans to report the matter to the Secret Service.

“Violence shouldn’t be tolerated in any way, in any venue in any jurisdiction in the United States, and it certainly won’t be tolerated here in Ashland County,” he told the Cleveland TV station.

The Ashland County Democratic Party later responded with a statement comparing its situation to President Richard Nixon’s enemies list and Senator Joseph McCarthy’s communist hearings of the 1950s.

Well, that’s one way to admit guilt. But in any case, as Glenn asked in late 2020, “After a decade of seeing leftists doxxing people and getting them fired for expressing a forbidden opinion, I have to ask what’s their beef with Joe McCarthy?”