Top Republicans have been repeatedly attacking the nationwide planned October 18 "No Kings" protests as "hate America rallies." But conservative attorney George Conway is arguing that the GOP is deeply afraid of the protests in two significant ways.

As the Washington Post reported, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) and House Republican Conference Chair Lisa McClain (R-Mich.) all besmirched the upcoming demonstrations and likened participants to terrorists.

“I bet you you’ll see Hamas supporters, I bet you’ll see Antifa types, I bet you’ll see the Marxists on full display, the people who don’t want to stand and defend the foundational truths of this republic," Johnson said Friday.

However, in a Friday segment on MSNBC, Conway suggested Republicans' attacks were particularly revealing. "The Weeknight" co-host Michael Steele (also the former chairman of the Republican National Committee) began the exchange by asking Conway his thoughts on Republicans "silently watching" as President Donald Trump instructed the Department of Justice to prosecute his political opponents. The prominent Trump critic acknowledged the "crucial moment" the U.S. was in, and blasted voices in the media who downplayed criticisms of Trump as "authoritarian" and "fascist."

"We've seen nothing but thatever since the prosecution ofpolitical enemies, soldiers onthe streets," Conway said. "The attempt to divide,demonize the enemy, callingthem terrorists,people calling people who arejust marching in the streets,terrorist supporters and Antifaand Hamas and all that stuff.And it is really, really insane."

"Youhave a bunch of people who arelying liars who lie, and theycontinue to lie," Conway said of Republicans. "They're lyingabout the protests. They'resaying, 'oh, these are going tobe violent' ... They're trying to do twothings. One is, they're tryingto delegitimize somethingthat they know is going to bebad for them. And the secondthing is they're trying todeter people from showing up."

"But they've absolutely hadthe opposite effect," He added. "And it'ssort of like the way Trump iswith selling books for thepeople who write about him.He trashes the book and the book ends up at the top of the charts! And that's what's happening tomorrow."

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