"An Existential Fork In The Road"

 

Nobel Prize laureate Paul Krugman, writing today in his Substack column, about whether the murder of Alex Pretti by Border Patrol thugs will mark a turning point in the public's view of the Malignant Fascist's brutal and lawless immigration policy:

"One thing I can safely predict is that Trump and his people won’t admit error. They won’t concede that Pretti was murdered, and that their initial claims about what happened were false. They won’t discipline the ICE agents responsible. They probably won’t call off the siege of Minneapolis, although they have silently backed down elsewhere, notably in Los Angeles and Chicago.

Why will the brutality continue? Because these people are malignant narcissists, whose lives are all about displaying dominance. The sheer horror of what they’ve already done makes it impossible for them to change course, because climbing down after you’ve murdered people and lied about it would be humiliating — and humiliation is their greatest fear.

The big question is what happens when the administration’s determination to keep terrorizing the American people collides with public outrage. One safe prediction is that Trump will try to subvert the November elections: in a clear example of a shakedown, Bondi has demanded that Governor Tim Waltz hand over the Minnesota voter rolls.

Many Americans are grieving over the murder of Alex Pretti, who was simply trying to defend a woman being assaulted by federal officers when he was executed. Beyond the horror of the moment, however, we’re at an existential fork in the road. Let us hope that this country wakes up to the full magnitude of what is happening before more martyrs are offered up as sacrifice."  (our emphasis)

As Krugman shows, the MF's poll numbers overall are plummeting, including those on his vicious immigration actions.  The more the public sees with their own eyes that the claims coming out of the lying mouths of the MF, the perverse "ICE Barbie" Noem, the pint-sized thug Greg Bovino and the entire corrupt crew are fake, the more they should understand that lying is the major part of this regime's essence.