Sometimes, a picture can speak more eloquently than words.
Looking at those police goons in Michigan, standing behind Trump, tells you all you need to know about some police departments.
You could see it in Birmingham, Alabama in that iconic photo of the cop and his police dog--although, as is so often true in life, that photo may have been misleading.
You can see it in Texas with Governor Abbott.
You could see it in Alabama when George Wallace stood in the school house door and declaimed, "Segregation today. Segregation tomorrow. Segregation forever," backed up by his police.
Today I have stood, where once Jefferson Davis stood, and took an oath to my people. It is very appropriate then that from this Cradle of the Confederacy, this very Heart of the Great Anglo-Saxon Southland, that today we sound the drum for freedom as have our generations of forebears before us done, time and time again through history. Let us rise to the call of freedom- loving blood that is in us and send our answer to the tyranny that clanks its chains upon the South. In the name of the greatest people that have ever trod this earth, I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny . . . and I say . . . segregation today . . . segregation tomorrow . . . segregation forever.
--Governor George Wallace
You see it in the New York City Police.
Police often, but not always, are people who like beating people up. They are frequently resentful. They like tough guy leaders who "have our backs."
Less of that in New Hampshire, but true in many places.
George Orwell got it right in "Animal Farm," where Napoleon the pig takes a brood of puppies from their mothers, raises them and then unleashes them to run his rivals off the farm and to intimidate all the other animals, especially those who might challenge his authority.
Police like the ones standing behind Trump in Michigan ought to be in the mind of every voter walking into that voting booth on November 5, 2024.
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