my Big Picture Theory is that the Trump regime is just the pus and stink of the moral rot that Americans have let fester at the heart of our society for at least 40 years.
the current network of ICE concentration camps wouldn't be politically or logistically possible without the massive, bi-partisan carceral state we've built up over many decades since the Civil Rights Act. likewise, the ugly civil rights violations committed by the CBP/DHS and the high-seas massacres committed by the US military stem directly from the War on Terror. again, fully bi-partisan.
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