Will they or won’t they?

Created
Mon, 20/03/2023 - 01:30
Updated
Mon, 20/03/2023 - 01:30
“Party of law and order, my ass” Will MAGA stick its fingers in an electrical outlet a second time? What’s the betting line in London on violence erupting if Trump is indicted this week? Gonna drop a missive about it from Heather Cox Richardson right here: Rumors that he is about to be indicted in New York in connection with the $130,000 hush-money payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels have prompted former president Donald Trump to pepper his alternative social media site with requests for money and to double down on the idea that any attack on him is an attack on the United States. The picture of America in his posts reflects the extreme version of the virtual reality the Republicans have created since the 1980s. The United States is “THIRD WORLD & DYING,” he wrote. “THE AMERICAN DREAM IS DEAD.” He went on to describe a country held captive by “CRIMINALS & LEFTIST THUGS,” in which immigrants are “FLOODING THROUGH OUR OPEN BOARDERS [sic], MANY FROM PRISONS & MENTAL INSTITUTIONS,” and where the president is “SURROUNDED BY EVIL & SINISTER PEOPLE.” He told his supporters to “SAVE AMERICA” by protesting the arrest he—but no one else—says is coming on Tuesday. If it comes, it had best be for a felony that the Manhattan DA can prove. Firing and missing will be worse for all of us. Richardson offers some political backstory to how we arrived here with help from Russian “political technology”: Trump’s false and dystopian portrait…