I've linked to brilliant satire by Washington Post opinion writer Alexandra Petri before. This time, she was too angry to be satirical. Still brilliant, though.
In response to another opinion article, a reader using the handle Not Without A Fight commented:
Yes. The battle flag of the Confederates, the flag of treason against the United States, carried triumphantly through the Capitol Building.
Quote:This story is not unrelated to the American dream: a story about who deserves things simply by virtue of who they are, and who doesn’t; who is instantly presumed to be a true countryman, who will be told to go back to a place they never came from. It is a story about who gets to go where, who gets to exist safely in public, and who is only there on sufferance. It is a story about who gets to be real.
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It is not a surprise that Trump has thrilled white nationalists and white supremacists, Proud Boys and xenophobes and misogynists, those to whom being more real than others is so important....
...The Trump era is also the story of being menaced with guns and told you weren’t actually being menaced with guns — you were seeing people exercising freedom; you were watching a cheery band of patriots come to see their government at work. They were domestic, in the most vibrant militia tradition of the Founding Fathers, nothing like terrorists. This was their right, if a little rowdy. Everyone calling it a coup, or a mob, or an insurrection was hysterical. Proud Boys will be boys, after all.
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The message echoes down the frescoed corridors: Never forget, for a second, what we can do to you, if no one stops us.
In response to another opinion article, a reader using the handle Not Without A Fight commented:
Quote:The sight of the Confederate Battle Flag in the halls of Congress froze and then boiled my blood. Trump succeeded in doing what the entire Army of Northern Virginia could not.
I’m so glad my father (USCG ret.), Uncle E. (USMC, KIA WWII), Uncle W. (USN/USCG ret.), and Uncle R. (USA, CIB in Korea) have all passed. Their hearts, I think, would be as shattered as mine.
Yes. The battle flag of the Confederates, the flag of treason against the United States, carried triumphantly through the Capitol Building.