We deal with this a lot in our civil rights work against the vast system of pretrial detention. Decades of mass incarceration has left our culture desensitized. We have stopped realizing a core pillar of a reasonable society: the state must have very good reasons for putting a human in a cage.

The first Dem candidate who's campaign slogan is "Aren't you tired of being nice? Dont you wanna go apeshit?" is going to win in a landslide

when the right gets angry all the gop guys are like "you should be angry. at minorities, which is why we will arrest them all for you and murder some when we get bored"

when left gets angry at this the dnc goes "yeah but the thugs you're mad at want you to be mad, so calm down." gee thanks asshole

one lesson of trump's success is the power of taking what's basically an untenable, pandering position ("we'll only deport the bad guys") and then just doing what you want when you enter office

@durbin.senate.gov Fuck you. RESIGN.

The whole Make America Great movement claims to be nostalgic for the New Deal era in which Trump grew up, but they seek to undo the progressive taxation, labor-friendly policies, and robust welfare state (including social security, Medicare, investments in higher education) that lay at its core.