Any “resistance” aimed at removing a president would also involve the proverbial
street and popular culture. A good way might be to implant to such a degree the
idea of harming the president that it would become something more
than just a sick fantasy but become contextualized as an act of near patriotism
across the broader culture. Celebrities accordingly might dream out loud at
rallies of blowing up the White House. Or, a movie star might announce to
his/her audience his/her hopes for a repeat of a John Wilkes Booth-style
assassination. Or, a state legislator might post hopes that the unthinkable might befall President Trump. Or ,a rapper might release a video in which the president is depicted as shot. Or a comedian on camera might hold up a facsimile of the bloody
severed head of the president. Or a New York troupe might perform public plays
in which the president each evening is ritually skewered to death. Have we not
heard or observed via media the just mentioned sick fantasy's during Trump's
first fifteen months in office? Even now, a former Vice President desires to "Beat the Hell out of him."
We might also see and hear ad nauseam from actors and other celebrities expressing desires to beat him to a pulp, or hang him, or shoot him—all the insidious efforts not of those easily disregarded as unhinged, but of those with public personas, and with the effect of incrementally normalizing violence against the president. Late night comedians might vie with each other in their profanity and scatology, ridiculing the president with references to him fellating a foreign leader. Who knows, a secret service agent might even post a brag that she would not be willing to “take a bullet” to defend the likes of this president. Or a left-wing zealot might think shooting Republican congressmen was doing his part to thwart the evil Trump agenda. Have we not heard or observed all the above occur during Trump’s first fifteen months in office?
Blue, anti-Trump states might seek to nullify federal law, in the fashion that the states of the Old South insisted that they were not subject to federal jurisdictions. California, for example, might declare itself a sanctuary state, a declaration that would forbid federal immigration agents from enforcing fully the law. Or the states might incessantly sue the president’s administration on everything from immigration to environmental policy; such that every two weeks California is ritually filing a new law suit in a friendly court to curtail federal government jurisdiction over state residents. The California Governor might declare the president an immoral agent who had no fear of God, as peerage in his state talked of Calexit, a secession from the president’s United States. Or the California legislature might dream of subverting the new federal code curtailing state tax deductions in adolescent ways that would earn any taxpayer who tried such a con an IRS indictment. In fact, has not all the just mentioned transpired in Trump’s first fifteen months as president?
We might also see and hear ad nauseam from actors and other celebrities expressing desires to beat him to a pulp, or hang him, or shoot him—all the insidious efforts not of those easily disregarded as unhinged, but of those with public personas, and with the effect of incrementally normalizing violence against the president. Late night comedians might vie with each other in their profanity and scatology, ridiculing the president with references to him fellating a foreign leader. Who knows, a secret service agent might even post a brag that she would not be willing to “take a bullet” to defend the likes of this president. Or a left-wing zealot might think shooting Republican congressmen was doing his part to thwart the evil Trump agenda. Have we not heard or observed all the above occur during Trump’s first fifteen months in office?
Blue, anti-Trump states might seek to nullify federal law, in the fashion that the states of the Old South insisted that they were not subject to federal jurisdictions. California, for example, might declare itself a sanctuary state, a declaration that would forbid federal immigration agents from enforcing fully the law. Or the states might incessantly sue the president’s administration on everything from immigration to environmental policy; such that every two weeks California is ritually filing a new law suit in a friendly court to curtail federal government jurisdiction over state residents. The California Governor might declare the president an immoral agent who had no fear of God, as peerage in his state talked of Calexit, a secession from the president’s United States. Or the California legislature might dream of subverting the new federal code curtailing state tax deductions in adolescent ways that would earn any taxpayer who tried such a con an IRS indictment. In fact, has not all the just mentioned transpired in Trump’s first fifteen months as president?
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