Selectively Supporting Police

FROM THE BEGINNING it seemed apparent that we the American people would not take kindly to having our cities oppcupied by parading well armed federal troops, showing their power, and Trump's power, to the public. And indeed polls indicate that only about one third of Americans support the policy. Seventy eight percent of Republican support it, and an amazingly low four percent of Democrats approve. Trump may indeed be a complete moron, as most of his detractors allege, but he aint nobody's fool; he knows when to cut and run, when not to push a good thing too far. when to cut his losses. That the American people would protest vehemently against this blatant misuse of federal government presidential power was certianly predictable, in a country where most people don't want to be told what to do, including to have a good day. And that is precisely why we the American people badly need to ,indeed must keep getting out an protesting not only a particular crime committed by I.C.E., for there will doubtless be many more. Nor should we get out on teh streets and portes the very existence of I.C.E. If we are going to go to all the trouble of bundling up and freeaing our collective arses off for hours in the cold winter wind, snow, and slttet to make a point,let's mae a big one. the point we want to make, and must for the sake of America must make, is not merely that Trump has turned the I.C.E. agency into his personal Gestapo a murderous gang of thugs under his criminal control, but that the entire Trump administration is an illegal fascist regime in which all the important leaders in government are nothing ore than adoring, pandering sycophants of their icon hero, Herr Trump. When millions of us,all across America's fruited plain, from sea to shing sea,take to the streets to protest a specific crime of teh Trump administration, we might as well protest the entire criminal enterprise, the entire organized criminal movement. As is being and has been repeatedly pointed out, Trump's immediate inner circle of associates, his political party, and the entire Trump supporting conservative movement in America, most especially the religious evangelical conservative demographic, is as much responsble for America's devolution into fascism as is their fuhrer himself.That four fifths of Republicans favor the aggressive policing of the I.C.E. aremed forces is perhaps discouraging, but the fact fully one fifth of Republicans evidenly do not supprot Trump's policy may be regarded as no less encouraging. We can be sure that an overwheliming percentage of Americans,probably one hundred percent, do not want to to live in an America in which the federal government and in particular the chief executive are free to impose military martial law upon the population without very serious, very demonstrable reasons for doing so. Europeans,who have known real tyrany, are sometimes amuzed at how intolerant Americans are of the power of their own government, and at how quickly we are to push back against any form of perceived deprivation of liberty. Ex Congress person Marjorie Taylor Greene questioned whether conservatives would be so approving of how I.C.E treated the progressive Alex Pretti, with a bullet to the brain, had he turned out to be a MAGAt. It may be that in the word of Trumpland, it is perfectly acceptable for federal police to blow away far left liberal lunatics, but not good Trump loving American Christians. Kyle Rittenhouse showed up at a right wing protest with an automatic rifle and killed somebody with it. He was exonerated and regarde by conservatives as a hero. Ales Pretti carried a legally owned concealed handgun, never brandished it, and is being demonized by the right wing for somehow having caused his own death by carrying a deadly weapon. Incredible, the hypocrisy. If conservatives truly approve of Trump "going after" his enemies,as he openly does without the slighest hesitation or compunction,their approval of heavy handed presidens might take a deep dive when the next Democrat takes office, in three years.