Jay Kuo: Insurrectile Dysfunction

[Nevilledog]

https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/insurrectile-dysfunction

Donald Trump and Stephen Miller are trying to make “insurrection” happen. We know this because that word keeps popping casually out of their mouths.

Miller called U.S. District Court Judge Karin Immergut’s temporary restraining order against deployment of federal troops to Portland a “legal insurrection.”

Meanwhile, Trump labeled the pushback to ICE’s enforcement actions in Chicago and Portland “criminal insurrection.”

Just to be clear, what is happening in places like Portland and Chicago is nowhere near insurrection. Real insurrection looks like what we saw on January 6, 2021, when Trump refused to call in the National Guard to support local police and then pardoned over 1,500 criminals, many of whom committed violent assaults on law enforcement.

Until something rises to that level of threat and violence, Trump’s and Miller’s use of the word “insurrection” will always ring hollow. Indeed, it’s pretty clear that they are deliberately choosing to use that word in order to dilute its meaning, particularly applied to the MAGA mob who stormed the Capitol hoping to derail Congress’s election certification.

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