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The Straw Man in Trump 2.0 Has Taken Front and Center
If you want the wrongfully-arrested El Salvadoran freed from prison, then you support vicious crime.
“If the Supreme Court tells me, I will obey. I respect the Supreme Court.”
You might think these words are mine, but they aren’t — I don’t respect the Supreme Court. I used to, but since this current period of right-wing activism, commencing with the Citizens’ decision, began the Court has facilitated what we have become today.
The above words were spoken by Donald Trump. In one of his more gracious moments, probably after having moved his bowels, he offered to the drooling media that he is bound by the decisions of the Supreme Court. If you were paying close attention, though, Trump seems to have muttered just below his breath, at the level a dog whistle vibrates through the air. Move your ear closer to the screen. “Unless.”
Did you hear that?
“Unless.”
There it is again.
“I will respect the Supreme Court unless…”
It is this small word, a conjunction, that threatens to, once and for all, bring the whole house of cards tumbling down on itself.
