I live in a sort of small town outlying suburb of a University town in Michigan. You probably have heard of it, it’s a football team with an institution of learning and research attached. My sub is moderate conservative upper middle class professional and went for Biden. and I am literally about 500 yards from the surrounding areas wh…
I live in a sort of small town outlying suburb of a University town in Michigan. You probably have heard of it, it’s a football team with an institution of learning and research attached. My sub is moderate conservative upper middle class professional and went for Biden. and I am literally about 500 yards from the surrounding areas which are deep red, Trump flags, people with inflatable Trump lawn figures, and who drive around in pickup trucks decorated with belligerent MAGA signs and flying Trump and Gadsden flags. Not only that— punisher symbols, blue stripe fascist American flag images, and lots of gun imagery—such as the outline of Michigan (which resembles a mitten) holding a firearm.
These people spent a lot of time inT rump parades last election— trucks and boats and motorcycles, driving and sailing around like “wide awake” marchers in the 19th century, or Brownshirt rallies in Deutschland in the 20th.
They are armed. I expect to see them more and more even cruising in my neighborhood, showing their strength in shows of intimidation. If they turn from thus far performative assholery to actually brandishing and then using their weaponry I don’t see where it stops, or how we can turn it around. Because the other side wants the violence, and we just want to be left alone to enjoy our safe, upper decile, professional class nice life and our comfortable high incomes, high value big houses, and good schools and careers.
I live in a sort of small town outlying suburb of a University town in Michigan. You probably have heard of it, it’s a football team with an institution of learning and research attached. My sub is moderate conservative upper middle class professional and went for Biden. and I am literally about 500 yards from the surrounding areas which are deep red, Trump flags, people with inflatable Trump lawn figures, and who drive around in pickup trucks decorated with belligerent MAGA signs and flying Trump and Gadsden flags. Not only that— punisher symbols, blue stripe fascist American flag images, and lots of gun imagery—such as the outline of Michigan (which resembles a mitten) holding a firearm.
These people spent a lot of time inT rump parades last election— trucks and boats and motorcycles, driving and sailing around like “wide awake” marchers in the 19th century, or Brownshirt rallies in Deutschland in the 20th.
They are armed. I expect to see them more and more even cruising in my neighborhood, showing their strength in shows of intimidation. If they turn from thus far performative assholery to actually brandishing and then using their weaponry I don’t see where it stops, or how we can turn it around. Because the other side wants the violence, and we just want to be left alone to enjoy our safe, upper decile, professional class nice life and our comfortable high incomes, high value big houses, and good schools and careers.