This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
Democrats and other leftists across America have been unleashing rage rhetoric with foaming-at-the-mouth episodes of dysfunction in recent months.
Calling President Trump "Hitler" and his fans "Nazis" no longer seems to be enough.
Now there are insults and sometimes demands for physically impossible actions, even threats.
And the infection has spread even to mostly Republican Montana, where one political candidate, Haley McKnight, seeking to be a city commissioner there, oddly thought her campaign would be enhanced by a vile, vicious verbal assault on Sen. Tim Sheehy, a Republican.
Editor's Note: Be aware of offensive language from McKnight.
On social media, commenters responded to McKnight with:
"Imagine running for public office and thinking death threats via voice mail is part of the campaign strategy."
"I don't think she gets invited to a lot of parties."
"This voicemail raises issues of potential criminal threats, harassment, and civil liabilities, especially, given McKnight's public role as a candidate."
And, "We're gonna need a bigger mental institution."
Constitutional expert Jonathan Turley, who has a book addressing the issue, "The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage," commented on the current trend among mostly leftists for "unmitigated hate speech."
McKnight hopes for Sheehy, death, cancer, more death, and yes, more death.
Turley noted in Virginia the Democratic candidate for attorney general, Jay Jones, admitted that he previously expressed a desire to kill a political opponent and his children.
McNight's rant include: "Hi, this is Haley McKnight. I'm a constituent in Helena, Montana. I just wanted to let you know that you are the most insufferable kind of coward and thief. You just stripped away health care for 17 million Americans, and I hope you're really proud of that. I hope that one day you get pancreatic cancer, and it spreads throughout your body so fast that they can't even treat you for it."
She then descended into a "litany" of insults about fertility, Sheehy's children, and threatened the senator not to "meet me on the streets."
"I hope you die in the street like a dog. One day, you're going to live to regret this. I hope that your children never forgive you. I hope that you are infertile. I hope that you manage to never get a boner ever again. You are the worst piece of s*** I have ever, ever, ever had the misfortune of looking at … God forbid that you ever meet me on the streets because I will make you regret it. F*** you. I hope you die…All that you have done since you have gotten into power is do s*** for yourself."
Turley noted that McKnight's response was that her rage was "righteous" and she blamed "conservatives" for making public her threats.
She claimed, "I was responding to some horrible policy with some justified rage." And she blamed the senator for not responding to her call.
"I would hope that if Sheehy was so rattled by my voicemail, he would have contacted me instead of leaking my information to conservative news media the night before an election. It feels like a cheap shot. I'm one of his constituents, and you know, this message is nothing that I'd say to my grandmother or in front of any children, it was meant for Senator Sheehy alone."
The Montana Free Press said McKnight, who wants to be on Helena's city commission, said her "rage" was "justified."
She claimed to the publication she didn't really wish the senator "any harm."
In fact, she now has accused the senator of trying to "bully and harass" her.
Sheehy spokeswoman Jack O'Brien said, "We hope Ms. McKnight gets the help she clearly needs."
She has been described as a "progressive" and records show she's donated money to a Democrat.
Officials confirmed police had been notified.
