Adam Serwer

They revised the constitution to say the federal government will protect the rights of the individual people.

So I think what's unusual here is we have sort of a reverse reconstruction

where the Redeemers are in charge of the federal government.

And rather than, you know, the sort of redemption era red shirts running around with guns intimidating people who are, you know, associated with, you know, local and state violence,

elites.

It's the federal government who's invading states and oppressing people there on the basis of their skin color or legal status.

Or as we see in Minnesota, there's no way to contain this kind of state violence to the quote unquote undesirables themselves.

American citizens who want to defend the ideals that they were raised to cherish are also in the line of fire and will also be killed as a result.

I mean, I think the secret to this overreach is that they thought they had gotten a popular mandate to go full fascist.

Got it.

I have a lot of different kinds of feelings about the choices that American voters made in the last election.

I know that people will say it was largely a result of inflation when you look at global political trends.

But guys, do you understand now why voting on that was a bad idea?

In any case, you know, I think what these two killings have demonstrated is that the rest of the country, you know, whatever you think of that choice, and I really find it baffling, they don't want to see people gunned down in the streets.

And there are a lot of people on the extremely online MAGA right who are saying things like, you have two months and we're going to come get you.

You know, like this sort of, I think sometimes the kids call it Seppi Roth posting after the main antagonist of Final Fantasy VII.

I mean, like this sort of like weird supervillain shit, you know, I think most of the country actually doesn't like it.

You know, the thing about the Internet is that these people who are like weird and depraved have all been able to find each other and make a very loud cacophony of voices, making it seem like these attitudes are normal.

And, you know, some of the richest men in the world are among them.

And encourage these voices to express themselves.