The Trump administration has lost all credibility. They spin misinformation and outright lies into a reality the American people writ large want nothing to do with.
Their policies are horribly unpopular. Their agencies are peopled with dangerous incompetents. They leave a wake of lies and devastation.
Remember this? In 2004, a senior advisor to George Bush told a journalist that people like him lived in “the reality-based community.” They believed people could find solutions based on their observations and careful study of discernable reality. But, the aide continued, such a worldview was obsolete.
“That’s not the way the world really works anymore. We are an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors…and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”
He’s right. History will be left to study what we see happening. But it won’t be his victory we’ll be reading about. We’ll be reading, like we do about the McCarthy era, of the damaging mass hysteria that took hold of America. We will read how some equivalent of saying ‘At long last, have you no decency’ will snap us out of the warped, twisted, anti-American fever the Trump administration is trying so hard to force down our throats.
That’s the reality that will come to pass. And those on the wrong side of history now, will stay on the wrong side of history then.
So while we see the hate and violence being celebrated and encouraged on the right (because that is absolutely where it is), when we watch a Fox personality on air call for killing of people just for being homeless, when we read screeds by Stephen Miller calling for mass retribution against apparently anyone using their First Amendment rights or Elon Musk at an anti-immigration rally (irony much?) fostering hate against teachers and professors, a vast number of we the people see it for what it is.
Stephen Miller posted: “In recent days we have learned just how many Americans in positions of authority—child services, law clerks, hospital nurses, teachers, gov[ernmen]t workers, even [Department of Defense] employees—have been deeply and violently radicalized. The consequence of a vast, organized ecosystem of indoctrination.”
Elon Musk reposted a spreadsheet of “people who’ve said vile things” about Charlie Kirk’s murder. Over the list, he wrote: “They are the ones poisoning the minds of our children.” “So far, teachers and professors are by far the most represented,” the author of the list wrote.
The continued refusal of GOP lawmakers to challenge MAGA’s creation of this sick reality has paved the way for radicals to try to put that world into place through violence. We’re seeing that unfold.
Will you continue to allow the escalating retribution against American freedoms by violence?
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