Be the Insurrection

Team Trump has known for a while now that if they want an insurrection, they’re going to create one.

It’s why all the elements of the MAGA message machine are in overdrive, from Fox down to windowlicking scamfluencers like Benny Johnson and Nick Sorter, each breathlessly lying about the “carnage” on the streets of Portland.

They’ve been telegraphing this play for years, the fantasy of crossing that final bridge, of four-wheeling across the Rubicon, of flipping the last switch on the control-rod panel at Chernobyl, because what could possibly go wrong?

Like a third-rate magician with a tell so obvious a blind man could spot it, Donald Trump and his claque of pissant authoritarians have switched from wanna-be to gonna-be, itching to turn the United States military into their personal palace guard, their political police force, their Praetorian Guard for the Thousand Year Trumpreich.

Even “good” Republicans in Washington are realizing their MAGA colleagues are all-in on the end of American. Trump’s allies who find this moment disquieting discount the possibility of bodies stacked in American streets, winnowed down by gunfire from American troops. The shame the GOP should feel for backing this horror is infinite, and unforgivable, but the price of their souls has already been collected, and shamelessness is their superpower.

Now, red state governors, eager to curry favor with the Maximum Leader are begging him to take their National Guard troops and deploy them to teach those terrorists in Chicago and Portland a stern, bloody, deadly lesson.

After all, those blue state scum aren’t real Americans, right?

There’s a reason they’re shooting priests in the head with pepper balls. There’s a reason they’re calling in fake 911 calls to claim ICE is under attack. There’s a reason they shot a woman nine times over her following their ICE snatch squads. There’s a reason they boomed into Chicago in Blackhawks, bagging-and-tagging a building’s residents, including U.S. citizens. There’s a reason the anorexic Elsa She Wolf of the SS Kristi Noem and her concububba Corey Lewandowsi descend like herpetic locusts in American cities with a film crew recording their cosplay.

There’s a reason they’ve embedded MAGA influencers in their attack squads to gleefully chronicle agitporn of the masked government thugs in our streets, warrantless and lawless. There’s a reason Fox airs endless loops of old footage of flames and chaos in Portland, claiming rampant terrorism on the streets...