Leah Litman

You know, they are also targeting hospitals, you know, that provide gender affirming care and research universities.

You know, they are targeting schools, you know, that, again, you know, provide inclusive policies, you know, for trans students and trans athletes.

So.

they are engaged in this all-out war on the existence of, you know, trans people and their ability to basically participate in society.

Exactly.

I mean, I think people have noticed this in the case of Renee Nicole Good, right?

Like, it didn't really matter who she was.

She's a white woman.

She is now the enemy, you know, and they are just willing to lump in anyone who, again, they like harbor animus toward or who criticizes them or tries to stand in their way.

Like, they will dehumanize all of those people and just like attempt to normalize the state violence, you know, against them.

I mean, it's absolutely terrifying and terrifying.

The idea that there is no longer a consensus in this country that federal agents shouldn't be going door to door, car to car, hauling people out, throwing them on the ground and assaulting them.

I mean, I would have thought, you know, before...

January of 2025, if you just showed anyone a video and you didn't tell them, right, who the officer was and who the target was, everybody would say, we don't do that here.

That's not OK.

And now they have polarized this where, again, they are asking for permission from their ideological allies to

Right.

It's possible that that's what they are hoping for and that that's what they will get.

But honestly, I also think they are telling themselves two things.

One is that Democrats just don't have the spine.