Adam Serwer

Our great depression is our lives.

And this is the figment of an imagination of a disturbed person.

But I think, you know, for a lot of like online, like far right MAGA types, it's actually a thesis statement.

And so, you know, they thought of this, you know, mass deportation project as their great masculinizing, you know, saving Western civilization thing where they would get to prove that they were manly men.

They would finally get the manly execution of violence in

in defense of a great cause that would give their lives meaning.

And instead, this oppressive federal invasion of an American city has given their political opponents to show that they are brave, that they are fighting a great cause, that they are the ones who have a community that they will defend even at the risk of their own lives.

that they are the ones who truly believe in their principles to the point of risking everything to defend them.

And I think there's a kind of irony to that because this community in Minnesota

The right has a social theory that multiracial, multifaith communities cannot be, quote unquote, cohesive, that our chaos is the result of the presence of people who are different from us.

And then you see this multiracial community in Minneapolis coming together in defense of each other.

In this like broad, nonviolent way.

And it's just inspiring.

And it just refutes the idea that the problem with quote unquote cohesion is the presence of people who are different from us.

The problem is, you know, people who make an issue out of someone being different from you.

You know, the way I sometimes describe it is it's like, you know, an arsonist setting a building on fire and then complaining about the temperature.

If you're going to demagogue about how horrible, you know, X group of people are, of course, like there are going to be cohesion problems because you are saying these people are the enemy and they are a legitimate target of state violence in the way that Trump has said, you know, Somali immigrants are garbage and we don't want them here.

Yeah, look, I've heard this before.

And I think, you know, it is an argument that makes sense on paper.

You can disagree with it.