Susan Rice
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Whatever the worst case scenario you want to ascribe to
what she did, and I don't, by the way, just to be clear.
But if you want to take the worst narrative as constructed, manufactured by Trump and Vance and others, what they should have done is arrested her.
You don't shoot somebody for being what Trump called disrespectful.
So Americans are rightly outraged that American citizens, American citizens of all races, of all backgrounds,
are finding themselves in the unimaginable reality of having masked men bust into their homes without a valid judicial warrant and seizing people and grabbing them and throwing them into cars and disappearing them, sometimes in nothing more than their underwear.
American citizens.
I don't know what you call that, but Gestapo-like tactics.
I mean, Joe Rogan described them.
And that's not who we are.
I don't care how MAGA you are.
I don't care how much you were worried about the price of eggs.
I don't think that Americans want to live in a country where any one of us
Regardless of how many generations we've lived in the United States, how old our citizenship is, what we look like, how we worship, who we love, can find themselves disappeared out of their private homes by masked people with no warrant.
That's what we're dealing with.
And it needs to sink in.
Nobody signed up for that because if it can happen to me, it can happen to you, it can happen to any of us.
I agree it's going to get worse.
I think the point of all of this is to intimidate, is to quell legitimate First Amendment dissent, and to make it difficult for
everyday Americans, much less corporate leaders and university presidents and leaders at law firms, to speak up and oppose what is clearly a widening authoritarian power grab.