As appalling as this is on its own, my bigger concern is that this is yet another instance of Trump testing boundaries and seeing what he can get away with.
He did it when he called for money that Congress allocated to the military to be redirected to fund his stupid wall (with support from military leaders, somehow).
He does it every time he "jokes" about foreign leaders with lifetime tenures and says we oughtta try that in the United States, lol, I'm just kidding of course, lol.
The man's been pushing and testing and checking to see where the limits are for 3.5 years. And he hasn't found any. There's nothing he can't do because he's bent the entire Republican Party and its media bullshit machine to his will.
And this is what we get. Literal jackbooted thugs attacking American citizens in the streets.
Come on, NRA. This is your moment. You know what, and I can't believe I'm about to say this... Y'all were right all along. You really did need all those big dick guns to protect yourselves from your own government.
Now, what are you going to do about this?
Nothing. Because you don't give a damn about tyranny and oppression as long as you think the people it's pointed at deserve it. You're the mob, an easily manipulated bunch of marks. They'll get you to cheer for tyranny and oppression. You'll think and do whatever you're told to.
Pretty soon, federal military in unmarked gear in major American cities will be the norm. You'll get used to it quickly, because you'll be told to. And it's not pointed at you anyway, right?
This country is in an awful lot of trouble and it's getting worse by the day.
How could we have been this stupid?