We Are The Enemy

Heard a fascinating interview with Anne Applebaum on NPR the other day. She was talking about her new article in the Atlantic, “History Will Judge the Complicit,” which deals with the GOP and its craven submission to Trump and his Fascists. But, during the course of the interview, she was asked about Trump’s eagerness to use the military against peaceful protests.

She then made a point I’d never considered.To wit, he wants the Armed Forces for the optics. The military is meant to be used against people and nations who are a threat to America. So, if it is used against protesters, no matter how peaceful or justified they might be, then those men and women must be enemies of the American people. In other words, his purpose is to de-Americanize those who disagree with him.

In a word, whoa.

Let us us pray then, that somehow we do not...as a nation...let him get away with that. Let us keep in mind that we are all of us Americans, and in this cause united...

In spite of all that Trump might say, or do, in his grotesque quest for absolute power.