Sarah Longwell

Like, it's in our bloodstreams.

It's in our creed.

Like, and so I feel like there is an element even of people who are like, well, ISIS is supposed to be

getting immigrants out of here, right?

They take their blood and soil nationalism very seriously.

They still are uncomfortable with masked agents.

Like, instinctually, Americans are uncomfortable with masked agents roaming the streets of America, shooting Americans in the face because they are protesting.

which is what she was doing.

She wasn't meaningfully blocking traffic.

And imagine if every time the libs stopped traffic, which they do all the time in D.C., you know when the traffic's really bad, like there's a protest on that bridge somewhere, cops just started shooting them.

What if the cops had opened fire on January 6th and started shooting people in the face?

Like, the only reason they shot Ashley Babbitt, like, when you watch the footage...

She was trying to break into the congressional chamber with a mob at her back of thousands of people.

She was in the front.

Like, these are not the same thing.

And so anyway, my point is, is that but I also think Americans can start to see what is building here, which is Trump is putting together his own personal army and they are trying to normalize it.

For us, the idea that we cannot challenge them, that it is not okay to challenge them.

And these are the times, I think, look, all of the Trump administration is us making choices about what we spend our limited nervous system outrage on.

How much of that can we spare?

And this is one of those times when it overwhelms us.