Enemies Of America

A Nest of Vipers Bred In Our Midst

The insurrection, directed by Trump, is the snake eating its own tail. He is the head of the snake. These people are scared of our changing world — so scared that they have made themselves enemies of democracy — demonstrably the most dangerous enemies of America. His base is a nest of vipers bred in our midst; they are anti-democracy domestic terrorists.

At rallies, Trump recited the Al Wilson lyrics of “The Snake” and has shown himself to be the snake in his quoted fable. And the GOP bred the snake and the viper’s nest, spendking decades sewing doubt and fear in our democratic process and institutions. They framed the chaos in which Trump revels. He ignited a conflagration of anti-democratic furor in his base… fear and anger at a world looking less like them with every generation. They live in fear and fury — white fury. Only the privilege that comes with white skin can express such a level of white fury and not be felled in a bloodbath. (Is there any doubt their siege of the Capitol would have ended in a bloodbath if the rioters had been Black and Hispanic?)

There needs to be is substantive legal repercussions — for the rioters, certainly — but also for the public officials who’ve been inciting them since 2015. The GOP public officials who helped incite insurrection on 06 January 2021, and who…