THE GOP IS ENABLING UNRELENTING ATTACKS ON OUR DEMOCRACY. AND ON WE THE PEOPLE

Asked why he would want someone else’s Nobel Prize, president Trump answered: “Well, she offered it to me. I thought it was very nice. She said, ‘You know, you’ve ended eight wars and nobody deserves this prize more than—in history—than you do.’” This gesture has as much relevance as me picking up an Oscar statuette at my local thrift store. But I expect it’ll be displayed prominently. And everyone will be regaled with how it was really his anyway, but he was robbed. Everyone by now knows the way to Trump’s heart. The Florida Panthers hockey team presented Trump with a jersey bearing his name and the number 47, two championship rings, and a golden hockey stick. At the ceremony, Trump looked over at the gifts laid out beside the podium at which he was speaking, and told the audience: “I heard they have a little surprise. Ooh, that looks nice. I hope it’s the stick and not just the shirt. That stick looks beautiful. That looks beautiful. Maybe I get both, who the hell knows. I’m president, I’ll just take ‘em.” “I’m president. I’ll just take ‘em.” The new presidential motto encapsulated. Meanwhile the President of the United States has dispatched a masked, paramilitary force loyal to him over the Constitution to occupy an American city. One of those agents shot and killed a woman in broad daylight. But the federal government is not investigating the shooter. Instead, they are investigating the victim and her widow. If this were happening in any other country, we would call it by its proper name: fascism. This is not “TDS.” Or liberal fever dreams. It’s real, and it’s happening right now. And if you can’t see it, that’s the problem. Minneapolis authorities released police and fire dispatch logs and transcripts of 911 calls, all related to the fatal shooting of Renee Good. “They shot her, like, cause she wouldn’t open her car door,” a caller said. “Point blank range in her car.” Firefighters found what appeared to be two gunshot wounds in her right chest, one in her left forearm and a possible gunshot wound on the left side of her head, records show. Meanwhile, the Intercept news website noted that the DHS’s official Instagram account published a recruitment post touting “We’ll Have Our Home Again”, attaching a song with that title. The song is popular in neo-Nazi spaces and features lyrics about recapturing “our home” by “blood or sweat,” echoing themes invoked by white supremacists when they call for race wars, according to the Intercept. “Look, they call me a Nazi all the time – I’m not a Nazi,” Trump said on 60 Minutes in November. “I’m the opposite. I’m somebody that’s saving our country, but they call me Nazi.” You say tomato, I say tomahto. I expect Hitler believed he was saving Germany too. And look how that turned out.