Aaron Retica

And by preparing the ground on that, when authoritarianism or a tendency toward authoritarian violence showed itself, people knew how to read it.

Right?

They're like, oh, whoa, okay.

This is where we are now.

People have been talking about this, and I've been saying that they're, you know, the boy who cried wolf, but they just shot this woman for nothing.

They just shot this guy for nothing.

And it was laid down on a...

bedrock of urgency that a lot of people thought would never be realized, right?

And I think that's part of it, but there's another part of it too, which is why are they bothering all this?

And you're getting at it a lot here.

They're solving a problem that only sort of exists, right?

And during the campaign, the problem was they're eating our pets.

Like, what is the problem that's being solved there?

And I'm not saying that you shouldn't be an immigrant.

I mean, obviously, there has to be a border.

There has to be immigration.

But no one's really for open borders.

Like, that's all just a canard, right?

And that's why I was talking about that case in Charlotte, in part, because an earlier Trump obsession, which was to be incredibly racist about Black criminals, has been superseded to some degree, not completely, but superseded to some degree by his obsession with so-called illegal aliens.

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