Author: Daniel snow

I would say a month ago, two months ago, my sense of it was that, as bad as it was, it wasn’t quite holding together. And then Charlie Kirk was assassinated. And I guess — well, let me ask you this: How have you seen them change what they are saying, what they are doing in the aftermath of that? So I think at the level of words — which I’m usually a little skeptical of, but I think in this instance matter — you see the emergence of vengeance as a language. Vengeance is an old language. It goes…

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new video loaded: Trump Is Building the Blue ScaretranscriptBacktranscriptTrump Is Building the Blue ScareSince Charlie Kirk’s assassination, the Trump administration has been threatening to retaliate against the “radical left.” This response has echoes in American history — in the Red Scare.In the hours and days after Charlie Kirk’s murder, there was discussion on social media about whether this would be America’s Reichstag fire. A reference to the fire that was part of, that was a rationale for Hitler’s crackdown on political freedom in Germany. Many of us were worried hearing that. And I think what we’ve seen since suggests the…

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