How Hard Is It To Oppose Murder?:

What would it take for these freaks to voice objection to the actual fact of state terror happening right in front of their faces, rather than raising limp procedural qualms over Trump not having filed the proper paperwork to inflict it with sufficient bipartisanship? What conceivable abuse by the Trump administration would give Klobuchar an easier opportunity to simply believe in right and wrong—or even to mount a cynical performance of believing in right and wrong—than a masked goon whipping out a pistol and murdering one of her own constituents, on video, over nothing? Would Renee Good's summary slaughter at the hands of the American gestapo have been tolerable with buy-in from the Minneapolis Police Department? How fucking hard is it to simply and absolutely oppose the murder of innocent people by federal agents?

... we are supposed to have two political parties in this insane, stupid, unworkable government, and if one of them is the Dispatching Masked Agents Of The Racist Terror Department To Kidnap And Shoot People Party, then the other one has to be the Fully Opposed To Doing That Party, or else the very incredibly many Americans fully opposed to masked agents of the Racist Terror Department kidnapping and shooting people have no representation whatsoever.

... the absolutely necessary work of dismantling ICE, fully razing the rhetorical ground from whence it sprung, and prosecuting and imprisoning all the architects and perpetrators of Trump's campaign of terror cannot meaningfully begin so long as the supposed opposition party is represented at its top by people who think the problem with ICE is its disregard for inter-agency cooperation, rather than the essential fact that it is a racist paramilitary death squad rooted in disgusting nativist ideology incompatible with this country's nominal ideals.

A chronic, devastating cancer in American society is prominent Democrats outright refusing to share their constituents' urgency and horror in the face of what is being done to society by Republicans, and insisting instead upon an empty, delusional performance of sobriety and professionalism even to the extent of cooperating with people who very loudly regard them as traitors and want them killed. It's why Trump wasn't punished after he dispatched rioters to literally overthrow the government on Jan. 6, 2021. It's why Joe Biden's Justice Department failed to hold him and the people around him accountable for that day's crimes and innumerable others, setting the stage for his return to office and the open campaign of vengeance and looting we're now all subject to. It's why Trump's cabinet is filled with warmongering psychos and murderous eugenicists who rode into office with the imprimatur of Democratic confirmation. It's why Democratic leadership cooperated with Trump on reopening the government in the autumn even though roughly none of their own constituents wanted it, even though it meant abandoning tens of millions of Americans to ruinous healthcare cost hikes and funded both the unlawful invasion of Venezuela and the very agency responsible for Renee Good's murder.

A political leader who can't clear that bar until public opinion polling builds them a trampoline is no leader at all.