12/27/2022 0 Comments He a menace to society![]() He steps into the void of establishment politics, declaring himself and the official violence that he commands to be the thin blue line separating society from its enemies. ![]() Trump’s authoritarian style has prioritized personal loyalty, television ratings, and his own reelection prospects over public health and science, while people are dying and the economy takes a disastrous hit. A powerful minority remains ready to cede yet more power to our rulers in the name of security. ![]() ![]() But his language resonates because Americans had long since become fluent in the rhetoric of xenophobia, law and order, and tub-thumping nationalism. A few weeks ago, he threatened to deploy US troops to put down demonstrations.Īhead of November’s election, Trump will campaign not only against familiar bogeymen like China and immigrants, but against the specter of “antifa” and “thugs,” too. On March 12, Trump warned that this ongoing emergency might provide him with the excuse for sweeping powers: “I have the right to do a lot of things that people don’t even know about,” he mused. Not among masked outdoor demonstrators, but across the Sun Belt - including Tulsa, where Trump is going ahead with his plan for a large indoor rally the day after Juneteenth. Anger and necessity drove people together and brought an end to social distancing: both in the streets to protest and in workplaces, as “reopening” pushes people off the unemployment rolls. In the meantime, economic conditions for everyday people remain catastrophic. Obama’s national security adviser Susan Rice declared that the uprisings were “right out of the Russian playbook,” her delusion perfectly encapsulating liberal incomprehension. Liberals who had been claiming to lead the #resistance to Trump now find themselves cast as one of many targets for a mass rebellion. It must also account for why a historic uprising against police violence in a Democrat-ruled city has abruptly upended the quarantine. But a true reckoning with Trump’s threat to American norms and institutions must recognize that he is the product of both. Liberal critics are right to say that Donald Trump is dangerous and that he has now presided over an entirely preventable catastrophe. The COVID-19 pandemic has now killed more than one hundred thousand Americans and constitutes a clear break in what had been our economic and social reality. ![]()
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