- Trump has escalated his rage-filled and violent rhetoric to such an alarming level that we have to call it out.
- Sunday on Fox News, he threatened to use the military on U.S. citizens who oppose him.
Hello and happy Tuesday. There are 20 days until the election, and today we’re talking F-words: fear, fascism and what has become the dirtiest word in the American vernacular, facts.
In 2018, many of us (apparently about 50% of us) found it distasteful when Trump referred to El Salvador, Haiti and some African nations as “shithole countries” and began experimenting with the rhetoric that Black and brown immigrants were dangerous.
Though it hadn’t been widely reported yet, Trump had by then already started his brutal systemic policy of forcibly separating children from parents at the border — a tactic meant to deter families from coming to the U.S. without documentation, but which left thousands of parents with no way to reunite with, or even locate, their kids…
…Sunday on Fox News, he threatened to use the military on U.S. citizens who oppose him. Speaking to Fox host Maria Bartiromo about the possibility of violence after the election, Trump claimed America’s greatest threat is “the people from within,” who might have to be dealt with by force.
“It should be very easily handled by, if necessary, by National Guard or if really necessary by the military. Because they can’t let that happen,” Trump said…
…So what’s a democracy-loving American, Republican or Democrat, to do?
You have to listen to Trump.
If we don’t know what the MAGA folks are saying — and believing — we lose the ability to see the bigger picture of what is happening. If we don’t pay attention to the lies Trump is telling about FEMA, we can’t understand how significant it is that a lone man with a gun is threatening aid workers.
That man is the intended result: A person so removed from our shared reality that no impartial fact can sway him from his fear, rage and commitment.
With or without weapons, we will see more of these desperate Americans in coming days….
Source: Trump is escalating his anti-democratic rhetoric. It’s time to listen – Los Angeles Times








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