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Brutality, Law, and Order
Law and Order really should mean something more than beating back civic equality with the instruments of state power.
“People of Portland, and other Democrat-run cities, are disgusted,” Trump tweeted back in August. “They want Law & Order!” People in Portland surely understand now as they did then that Patriot Prayer thugs like Joey Gibson from Vancouver, Washington, have a talent for exploiting headlines by frequently invading Oregon, to generate street chaos by picking fights with Portland’s local Anti-Fascist Action (Rose City Antifa) for the benefit of Gibson’s political ambitions in Washington state.
It is no mere coincidence that on the same day that Trump pardoned his criminal cohorts Paul Manafort, George Papadopoulos, and Roger Stone, he also vetoed the National Defense Authorization Act because it cleared the way for stripping the names of Confederate generals from US military installations.
The South is different than the rest of the United States. The way the South has traditionally managed its regional interests is arguably the fascist dark side of American society as a whole — and is why you can still see Confederate flags displayed all over the country, even in places that did not secede or were not yet even states during the Civil War.