QOTD II -- "This Is Not A Drill"

 

We're going back to Paul Krugman for our second quote of the day, this time today's "This Is Not A Drill."  Here's the opening and closing, but please read it in it's entirety:

"There are two disastrously wrong ways to read the news from Los Angeles right now, and the rest of America over the next few days. The first is to believe that there is actually anything resembling an insurrection underway. The second is to believe that the Trump administration’s response to the nonexistent insurrection is simply cynical politics, an attempt to gain Donald Trump a few points in the polls.

"What we’re actually seeing is much worse: An attempt to end politics as we know it, to deploy force to suppress dissent. Not eventually, but right now. [snip]

"Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, gets it. I’ve never had strong views about Newsom, one way or the other, but this line from his big speech Tuesday was what everyone who cares about this nation should be saying right now:

Democracy is under assault right before our eyes, this moment we have feared has arrived. He’s taking a wrecking ball, a wrecking ball to our founding fathers’ historic project: three coequal branches of independent government.

"If you’re a pundit who thinks that this is over the top, you’re part of the problem (and you have been wrong every step of the way.) If you’re a Democrat who wants to ignore the ongoing assault on democracy so we can talk about Medicaid — important as it is — you’re hiding your head in the sand.

"This is the moment. Everything is on the line, right now."

We can only add, please prepare yourselves now in any and every way you deem necessary.  In the coming days and weeks, our democracy will be hanging in the balance.

BONUS:  The thugs are out of control;  now they're manhandling and handcuffing a sitting U.S. Senator at a Border Barbie news conference in Los Angeles.  Smells like fascism to us.