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Following sermon, Trump and his allies target Episcopal bishop
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Pause on this moment. Don't pass by it and write it off as more fantastical nonsense.
Hold it up to the light, really examine it. They want to start to detain millions of supposedly-illegal people, and "deport" them. Some of them were born here. Some of them came here as small children. But they're going to be "deported," presumably to somewhere vaguely related to where they "came from." That's going to happen. Whether it happens on the scale of millions like they want to do remains to be seen. But it's definitely going to happen to some number of people, and federal law enforcement is making a push to gain the ability to kick in some random person's door and force them to leave the country, and to start to do it at a pretty massive scale, whatever they can raise up the manpower for.
This isn't the first time I've seen this. Why do they fantasize sometimes about "deporting" anyone who makes them unhappy? Even if they're not Hispanic or any sort of immigrant, legal or illegal?
They didn't arrive at the word at random. There's a specific pattern of thoughts that makes them start reaching for the idea of deporting her, instead of charging her with a particular crime or anything like that. And there's a specific type of law enforcement agency and justice system that's generally in charge of deportation proceedings, that is different from the normal structures of civilian law enforcement and a jury of your peers.
Because they want to define what it means to be American. That definition conveniently includes themselves and people who think like them, and excludes Others.
Correct. You broke the code.
They are defining "American" as anyone who's on their team, and anyone not on their team as "not American," and in parallel to that they're setting up specific and powerful systems to punish people who aren't real Americans.
Callback to Sarah Palin's "Real America" garbage. It's been festering a while.