Occasionally, I check a YouTube channel that goes by danainspired, a fresh, often raw and spirited take on current events, usually focused on topics related to what’s going on in Washington and, by extension, the country and the world. She didn’t hold back in a recent post dedicated to Kristi Noem and her sham, ugly show tour of a prison in El Salvador.
What Dana said toward the end is what we should take to heart. I wish I could remember it exactly, but along with her biting, stinging takedown of Ms. Noem, she warned, without a hint of hyperbole, of something we should all be aware of by now—that it’s not a long trip from poor treatment of trans people and immigrants looking to escape the hell in their own countries and pleading for someone to pay attention to them, to a place not unlike what was going on in Germany and the concentration camps in Europe during WWII.
I took her bottom line to be that we should have zero tolerance for Trump and all his wizards of ignominy trying to tear this country apart. What happened in Germany in the 1930s and ‘40s could happen here, and it looks to be unfolding before our eyes.
Zero tolerance. It’s time for all of us sane people to, as Dana pleads, get in the game.
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