Into your life it will creep
Is anyone keeping a list? A list of the “I know you are but what am I?” behaviors of which the right accuses its adversaries while indulging in same with gusto?
Indoctrination? Extremism? Propaganda? Intimidation?
There must be a listing somewhere, but I’m too tired of the BS to go looking just now.
The breaking news Thursday night was a photo of an upside down American flag flown outside the home of Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., in Alexandria, Va. on January 17, 2021. Days after the violent assault on the U.S. Capitol by MAGA extremists on January 6 and three days before Joe Biden’s inauguration as Donald Trump’s replacement. Alito blames his wife.
Election rigging? Death threats? Political violence? Hating America?
Upside down display of the American flag is a considered a signal of distress. Donald Trump’s Stop the Steal cult appropriated the signal as a sign of alarm that a Democrat was about to occupy the Oval Office in his place. It is unclear how many days it flew outside Alito’s home, The New York Times reports. Nor is it clear why it took over three years for the neighbor who shot the photo to reveal it to the press. But it’s not a hard guess.
The Times reports (gift link), “The half-dozen neighbors who saw the flag, or knew of it, requested anonymity because they said they did not want to add to the contentiousness on the block and feared reprisal.”
Alito’s neighbors share that fear of reprisal with jurors serving in the Trump criminal trial in Manhattan. Should these anonymous Americans rule to convict Trump, they will be looking over their shoulders for years to come and fear doxxing by MAGA cultists and right-wing media personalities. Death threats could be the least of their worries for having done their civic duty. Trump, his allies in Congress, and the Trump cult call for executions for their enemies. This is what “great again” looks like under Trump’s red hats and Red Tie Brigade.
God Bless America.
But Joe Biden is destroying the country. (There’s another for the list.) Don’t ask how. You’ll out yourself as an America-hater. Samuel Alito outed himself long ago.
Update: Greg Sargent notes how if the Red Tie Brigade “were merely criticizing the prosecution on the facts and the law in substantive terms, it would be one thing. But here they are attacking the judge, his family, the witnesses, and the line prosecutors as actors in a fundamentally illegitimate proceeding.” Their action “threatens to sabotage public confidence in the justice system’s integrity and makes it harder for good-faith actors to play their roles in it without fear or favor.”
In other words, they are poisoning the well of democracy.
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