What should a president do when 114, no-insignia federal agents have figuratively parachuted into Portland, Ore. — "already the site of aggressive policing tactics that activists and city officials across the country say are inspiring more-violent clashes and re-energizing protests"?
Why the answer is simple, if you're der Führer in a bunker: You send an additional force of 150 secret police — who have been "followed by larger, better- equipped and more-aggressive crowds … [which] exhausted federal resources before it exhausted the protesters."
And he should do so when the city's population, which was originally protesting racial injustice, is now protesting the Führer's swelling police state.
It's a brilliant political strategy for a president far down in the polls but who is trying "to sell himself as a law-and-order candidate, the antidote" to lawlessness (largely his own) and disorder "that developed on his own watch." Portland suburbanites should enjoy seeing their once-comely downtown area converted into a kind of Warsaw ghetto.
In fact, why should the president not worsen his lawlessness, disorder and violence by expanding the fascist forces of black-vanned spooks to other major cities? Reports the Washington Post:
"In Seattle, protesters who saw camouflage-clad officers standing in their streets at a distance on Sunday wondered if they were the federal agents who were seen snatching protesters off the streets of Portland. 'We don’t even know who we’re dealing with,' said one protester, Madeline, who declined to give their [sic] last name because they feared police retribution."
Isn't that precious? Millions of Americans now fear America's growing equivalent of the Gestapo — which, for Trump, is so politically helpful, don't you think?
It's those damn kids and adults and everybody with their ubiquitous cell phone cameras spoiling the narrative. There's nothing quite like endless scenes of camo clad thugs wailing on an unresisting elderly Navy Vet or squashing an unarmed lightly clad Mom's face into the pavement to really sell your story.
By the way, anybody have any idea at all why camouflage patterned uniforms were thought ideal for inner city wear? My thinking is they are trying to conflate themselves with America's admired Army forces. But I don't think it is working.
Posted by: Peter G | July 28, 2020 at 10:53 AM
Half my extended family honestly thinks the Democrats are planning to microchip us all and turn us into slave labor. They’re positively giddy over Trump’s gestapo. (And please don’t try to resolve the incongruity there; it’ll just hurt your brain.)
Posted by: Jason | July 28, 2020 at 03:50 PM