NOT FAKE NEWS: For more than four years now, Donald J. Trump has been screaming “Fire!” inside a crowded theater. This Wednesday, we all saw the consequences.
It should come as no surprise. While still running for office, Trump infamously boasted, "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, okay?” For good measure, he added, “It’s, like, incredible.”
Since being elected in 2016, Trump has ruled in a manner befitting a mob boss. This Wednesday, the nation saw firsthand just what mob violence looks like, as right-wing looters and thugs stampeded their way into the nation’s Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., smashing windows, vandalizing art, and occupying the offices of elected officials. Most were white. None wore masks. Masks, it turns out, are the fashion accessory of choice for “sheeple.”