Six months.
That’s all it took for the Trump regime to make the move from kidnapping people on the street, to threatening to strip political enemies of citizenship, to selling swag celebrating the construction of an American concentration camp.
Six months.
And Republicans say that merch promoting the newly built Alligator Alcatraz concentration camp is “going like hot cakes.”
Some detractors have called the camp Alligator Auschwitz, but this may not be the most accurate comparison. Not yet anyway. Because the death camps didn’t just appear; it took years of increasing brutality and degradation before they got to Auschwitz.
It began at Dachau.
This may be anecdotal, but it may also be a canary in a coalmine.
I have seen a civilian population tear down its president and vice-president. Peacefully, and just before an election. It took months of activism. Weeks of protest and a 1-day general strike.
Look up Guatemala, 2015. Otto Perez Molina. #noletoca.
This was underreported, I think. Three presidents later, therr is Bernardo Arevalo. He is a president whose legacy hearkens back to before their Civil War, after WWII, and before US intervention.