Trump says his idea for stopping crime is to allow for “one really violent day”: “One rough hour, and I mean real rough...” pic.twitter.com/6XeVXL6R8b
— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) September 29, 2024
When someone shows you who they are the first time--believe them. This is Trump, ostensibly talking about crime. But what I think he means here is--what he calls "a crime". And that could be any damn thing. Making his hair look bad on television. Saying he didn't win in 2020, or that Russia helped him in 2016. Crimes are crimes in the run-up to a dictatorship, and then things the dictator doesn't like are crimes.
It's a "crime" that people believe him capable of crimes. It's a "crime" that his rallies aren't attended to his liking. They have a fix for that, in North Korea.
I remember thinking that the Telegraph and other right-wing comms in advance of 1/6 reminded me of "The Turner Diaries"--specifically, the "Day of the Rope" part. Multiple posts from Trump-affiliated right-wingers were looking to do something to "antifa". And I don't think they were at all confused that "antifa" means "anti-fascist". This is why there was only Trump fans there.
Being anti-fascist was the problem. Anti-fascists got the message and watched them do their thing that day and we could all see it, unadulterated. And it looked bad and it was bad. Just a couple hours of very roughness.
On social media, some people are likening this utterance to "The Purge" movies or to "Kristallnacht". They aren't wrong. It's about a display of localized violence to suppress resistance to an authoritarian movement that will curtail the freedom of all people eventually. Mass violence is not the solution to individualized episodes of crime--it's an act of war.
Our crime stats aren't some newly horrific crying shame, nor are our undocumented immigration stats--not from my Gen X experience. Trump lies about invasions, ruined "villages", as if he's talking about Mongol hordes sweeping into Europe circa like, a very long time ago. It's hard to connect the hellscape he speaks of to the real world we live in.
What he wants is to promise the violence that so many MAGA are inculcated to want. And give them a license to enact that violence if he needed them to. And they send death threats to businesses and election officials and court officials and all that because they get the assignment that their cult leader never has to spell out for them.
Morality, critical thinking, ethics all be damned.
See what he says? This is a rough beast, talking about a rough hour, his time coming round at last. And that time should be denied. Explained aloud where the sane people can hear, and rejected by them as the vicious unhelpful fuckery it is.
We need to talk about the big monster in the room. Because this is him--growling. And others talk of culture war, and civil war. But don't get it twisted--it's trying to create this.
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