The Reflecting Pool is a perfect metaphor for the Trump administration:
- Ignore experts and science
- Overspend
- Declare early, historic victory
- "THE LEFT HATE THIS"
- Ends in total failure
- Unfounded conspiracies about sabotage
- MAGA pretends it doesn't actually matter
Cesar Sayoc, a Trump super fan & obsessive Fox viewer, sent pipe bombs in 2018 to Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, & many other top Dems.
He was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
In the wake of the attacks, Trump said about his rhetoric: "Tone down, no. Could tone up."
When Charlie Kirk was murdered, those of us on the conservative side rightly chastised those of our political adversaries who cheered and celebrated his death. We accused them--again rightly--of shameful callousness and of polluting public discourse and coarsening social life. What President Trump does here merits the same chastisement, for the same reasons.
MAGA in 2024:
“we want job growth, lower prices and no new wars!!”
MAGA in 2026:
“Here’s why declining jobs, higher prices and war are actually a good thing….”
Facts that can't change
1. Americans have the right to own guns.
2. Open carry is legal in Minnesota.
3. If someone is disarmed then you can't shoot them for the danger they could no longer physically pose to you.
4. DHS lied. No proof that Alex Pretti was planning a "massacre".