One of the most disturbing videos of Donald Trump‘s invasion of Minneapolis features federal agents manhandling two Target employees, who scream their names at onlookers and insist they’re citizens (which appears to be true). A few minutes later, the victims were released in another parking lot, injured and bleeding. All the details are disturbing, from distressed onlookers trying to get the young men’s contact information during the initial assault to people yelling “they tortured him” as a newly released victim sobs like the child he reportedly is. But the moment that stood out most to me was when one good Samaritan asked plaintively while helping the distressed teenager, “We got to be able to call somebody.”
In a sane country, that guy would be right. In a country that elected Trump to a second term, however, this is more a lament for what has so quickly been lost, as he proves himself every inch the fascist that “hysterical” progressives said he was. In the ongoing war on this once-peaceful Midwestern state, Trump and his Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem have been trying to impress upon people a sense of hopelessness.
