'Going to be ready': Dems warn Mike Lee 'broke something open in Utah' with joke

In the wake of Sen. Mike Lee’s (R-Utah) incendiary social media posts linking the recent Minnesota shootings to “Marxists” and Democratic leaders, national and Utah Democrats are racing to turn public outrage into lasting political consequences, reporter Lauren Egan noted in a piece for The Bulwark published Thursday.

“We’ve got a lot of work to do on the ground level to convince people that Democrats aren’t, you know, demons and eating babies trying to make everyone have an abortion," Democratic state Sen.