Letter-to-Editor, W-S Journal: “Targeting Communities”
“Stephen Miller, lead White House policy director, said “‘Why aren't you at Home Depot? Why aren't you at 7-Eleven?’”
Calling for the National Guard in Los Angeles is a purposeful escalation. ICE no longer had agency when it began going after innocents and hardworking people. When you attack communities instead of criminals, the community fights back.
Stephen Miller, lead White House policy director, said "Why aren't you at Home Depot? Why aren't you at 7-Eleven?"
And then he spoke the administration's cruel intentions out loud: "What do you mean you're going after criminals?" and added, "That's what Tom Homan says every time he's on TV.
I wrote a letter in January calling the rhetoric from MAGA and Trump world a "Gangs of New York" fever dream steeped in acrimonious and dehumanizing verbiage. Now this nightmare is reality.
I fear we are heading toward a symbol history has used for gauging authoritarian shifts: crossing the rubicon. Donald Trump believes he can do anything. We should brace for the worst and hope that TACO Trump wins out in the end.
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