Trump is easy.
Trump hates black and brown people. He is enthralled by the idea of conquering armies and dictators obliterating political enemies and lesser human beings.
Statues depicting the greatness of whitish Europeans and inflicted genocide are to be celebrated.
Trump loves the idea of sending in federal brown shirts to beat and gas "anarchists" threatening "our people."
He doesn't really need a reason for his insurrectional incursions against liberation movements.
Statues are a ready stand-in for any phantasm of torturing and killing people who dare question the authority and prominence of the entitled ones.
We are trying to help Portland, not hurt it. Their leadership has, for months, lost control of the anarchists and agitators. They are missing in action. We must protect Federal property, AND OUR PEOPLE. These were not merely protesters, these are the real deal!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 19, 2020
There is a swath of Americans for whom Trump's mimicking neo-NAZI rhetoric on Twitter is disturbing. For many more, identifying the enemy and the other is soothing and inspiring.
In Virginia, long a racist bastion, many white and black folks have, in a phrase, had enough, and toppling statues there already seems like something that should have happened long ago.
"Black Virginians have made emotional pilgrimages to reclaim a space that for over a century was physically orchestrated to signify their exclusion and subordinacy," Siddhartha Mitter writes in The Intercept.
So, Trump will — living vicariously through the human garbage impressed into service by the Dept of Homeland Security — arrest, beat and gas the wrong people whom much of white America would like to see tortured.
Portland, for example, may be a dress rehearsal for the violent infliction and chaos Trump desires.
Wisconsin State Sen Tim Carpenter
Wisconsin State Sen Tim Carpenter (D-Milwaukee) is a rightwing legislator from Milwaukee.
Carpenter wants liberation protesters with whom he started a confrontation in Madison on June 23-24 thrown in prison.
Carpenter wants black and brown people who possess or sell marijuana in prison.
While a member of the Joint Finance Committee, Carpenter blocked pot reform when Democrats had unified control of state government in 2007-11.
Following passage of the ALEC-devised Truth-in-Sentencing law that targeted low-level drug "offenders" (Adelman, Valparaiso University Law Review), Carpenter's actions were especially odious, contributing to making Wisconsin the worst state to be black.
Now, Carpenter wants those responsible for toppling statues on the capitol
square in prison, introducing the first post-George Floyd legislation in
Wisconsin: Expanding the criminal code to make defacing statues a felony.
America has a lunatic white supremacist in the White House, police are assaulting protesters demonstrating against systemic police assaults, and at this historic moment, Carpenter targets liberation protesters.
Not a word from Carpenter on residential segregation, hostile municipal citation regime. Not a word on decriminalization, defunding and decarseration.
What drives Carpenter?
Carpenter is an identity-politics Democrat creature with no substantial progressive work as a legislator.
Passing this bill would be another tool to be used against liberation protesters.
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I've been following this scary-people-for-no-reason-attack-state-senator story since June 24, (Pittman/WORT News).
The Wisconsin press reports as fact Carpenter's version of events. Many questions remain unanswered.
Among them:
Who started the confrontation?
What was Carpenter doing at the capitol at Midnight.
Why did Carpenter spend minutes apologizing and explaining to a crowd before he claims he walked over to the capitol in the vicinity of a a WKOW-TV, and then collapsed? (Pittman/WORT News).
To be clear, Carpenter's action suggest he may have performed a collapse at the capitol for political effect.
Stay tuned.@TimCarpenterMKE would you be willing to work w Cap police to release unedited June 23-24 surveillance tape of you collapsing in vicinity of @WKOW crew. Certainly, transparency is the best policy. @patrickdmarley @WKOW @WISCTV_News3 @RoseSchmidtTV @susansiman @nbc15_madison— Michael Leon (@mal644) July 18, 2020
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Writes Nada Elmikashfi, Democratic candidate for Wisconsin Senate in Dane County, on Carpenter's unhinged statue protection: "In defending his new statue-protection bill, Carpenter acted out the hollowness, complacency, and satisfaction with inadequate progress that the toppled statues embody for marginalized people in Wisconsin."
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