Wandering Adventure Party

@odaraia I wouldn’t say I’m optimistic. And my level of trust in the Democratic Party is very low. It is the majority of the American *people* in whom we have to place our trust.

The America MAGA wants is one of brutal hierarchies. It is ugly and violent. This is a frightening situation. Weaponized MAGA in masks roaming the streets. There will be more victims of state terrorism.
 
But this spectacle of cruelty will not help them consolidate authoritarian rule.

I hope Democrats understand that if and when they get back to power, defaulting to “unity” politics and empty reconciliation without any real accountability would not only be morally abhorrent, but also politically suicidal: The desire for at least some semblance of justice will be overwhelming.

If and when America finds a way out of authoritarianism, not only will ICE have to be abolished: All these people will need to be held accountable in a court of law for the monstrosities they are committing - those who are ordering them as well as those who are carrying them out. Every single one.

If you are part of the MAGA-defined “Volk,” you get to rule, dominate, exploit. If you are not, because you deviate from MAGA’s vision of what “real America” is supposed to be, you have forfeited not only your rights and protections as a citizen, but also your humanity, your very right to live.

But in the upside-down world of MAGA, Babbitt is the hero, the patriot, the martyr; Good is a “domestic terrorist.” Such a clear crystallization of Trumpism as a political project: Redraw the lines of who belongs, who is legitimate, who is part of the “Volk.”

Ashli Babbitt and Renee Good: Two young women shot and killed by federal officers. The former because she was part of a violent insurrection – the latter because she peacefully protested the masked agents of the state sent into her city to kidnap her neighbors.

Renee Good was the victim of a government that is perpetually at war with a large portion of its own population and the pluralistic reality of American society. She was murdered one day after the Trump regime officially presented January 6 insurrectionist Ashli Babbitt as a martyr.

ICYMI yesterday:

I wrote about the killing of Renee Good: How it reveals, yet again, the violent, dehumanizing, essence of Trumpism – and why it will likely galvanize the resistance against MAGA’s authoritarian assault.

When the State Terrorizes the People:

When the State Terrorizes the People

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