The Gang That Wouldn’t Shoot Straight
“MAGA is many things, but above all it’s a movement about redistributing respect away from those who command too much (overeducated coastal elites) to those who don’t have enough (white Americans without advanced degrees who feel left behind). You see that redistribution at work in the Trump administration’s project to devalue medical experts and empower wellness gurus and vaccine skeptics, and in its dismissal of ‘deep state’ national-security professionals in favor of TV pundits. Nowhere does the demand to redistribute respect come into starker view than when guns start firing.” David Frum in The Atlantic (Gift Article): Why Vance Committed So Hard to the Minneapolis Shooter.
+ “Six federal prosecutors in Minnesota resigned on Tuesday over the Justice Department’s push to investigate the widow of a woman killed by an ICE agent and the department’s reluctance to investigate the shooter, according to people with knowledge of their decision.” I respect government officials who resign in protest of clearly unjust actions. But eventually, don’t we just end up with no upstanding officials? I don’t know what the workaround for this is, but it worries me.
+ It doesn’t get much sicker than following up on the unjust killing of an innocent American by blaming that victim for her own murder. In other words, it’s what we’ve come to expect from this administration. F.B.I. Inquiry Into ICE Shooting Is Examining Victim’s Possible Ties to Activist Groups.
+ Meanwhile, Trump Warns “DAY OF RECKONING” Is Coming for Minnesota. “Do the people of Minnesota really want to live in a community in which there are thousands of already convicted murderers, drug dealers and addicts, rapists, violent released and escaped prisoners, dangerous people from foreign mental institutions and insane asylums.” (He still doesn’t know the difference between political asylum and mental asylums. But he’s in charge of the world’s most powerful nation.)
