In June 2025, Democratic elected official Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark, along with their dog, were assassinated by a Trump supporter
Trump did not lower the flags to half-mast
He did not attend their funeral
President Biden, on the other hand, knelt before their coffins
and if I said the rats are a metaphor for the collective shared unresolved trauma that everyone wants gone but no one wants to do the work to get rid of and whitaker being the only one brave enough to face it..