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Two Congressman Just Called For The Extrajudicial Slaying of American Citizens
Over the past few years, my views on the future of American culture have been quite dark. The Republican party has become a de facto regime — protecting power for itself, regardless of the constitution and rule of law. We have a president that commonly and often places himself above the law, and is not challenged by his Republican colleagues. A large, vocal minority of this country takes this man, and this party, at face value, immune from science, facts, or even the ever-changing narrative the party provides. Still, I often tell myself that it’s not that bad, that I’m too critical, that my fears of major collapse are little more than an outlier event which most generations face.
Tonight, I worry that even I may have been too passive a citizen.
…the act against a group who stands against fascists must then be, simply, and horrifically plainly, an act of fascism.
In the last 24 hours, two sitting Republican senators have called for the slaying of American citizens with which they disagree with. Not detainment and prosecution — still a gross violation of the first amendment — but extrajudicial murder. To be hunted down. Their words, not mine.
