Fear Of Reprisal

Created
Fri, 17/05/2024 - 23:00
Updated
Fri, 17/05/2024 - 23:00
Into your life it will creep Is anyone keeping a list? A list of the “I know you are but what am I?” behaviors of which the right accuses its adversaries while indulging in same with gusto? Indoctrination? Extremism? Propaganda? Intimidation? There must be a listing somewhere, but I’m too tired of the BS to go looking just now. The breaking news Thursday night was a photo of an upside down American flag flown outside the home of Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., in Alexandria, Va. on January 17, 2021. Days after the violent assault on the U.S. Capitol by MAGA extremists on January 6 and three days before Joe Biden’s inauguration as Donald Trump’s replacement. Alito blames his wife. Election rigging? Death threats? Political violence? Hating America? Upside down display of the American flag is a considered a signal of distress. Donald Trump’s Stop the Steal cult appropriated the signal as a sign of alarm that a Democrat was about to occupy the Oval Office in his place. It is unclear how many days it flew outside Alito’s home, The New York Times reports. Nor is it clear why it took over three years for the neighbor who shot the photo to reveal it to the press. But it’s not a hard guess. The Times reports (gift link), “The half-dozen neighbors who saw the flag, or knew of it, requested anonymity because they said they did not want to add to the contentiousness on the block and…