Trump has just released his Brownshirts on the country

and for a little while the MAGAs will feel their oats.

The Republican politicians are struggling to explain. Perhaps they really thought he'd keep the violent offenders in prison. They weren't informed of the real plan. This will continue: gradually finding out that their plan is not Trump's plan, but having to defend it.

We enter a time where everyone who came forward and did the right thing are at risk. Informants. Witnesses. Judges. Violent offenders and president alike are bent on revenge and immune to repercusssions. Unlike Nazi Germany, it will be impossible to hide what is going on. We have to make sure they can't. We need to send everyone a copy of On the Waterfront and Lord of the Flies. Maybe Schindler's List as a bonus. Or the equivalent in some form. We are smarter than the Germans post WWI who fell for another set of lies. We have more tools. We cannot expect the same result. We must prevent the same result.

Rachel says shame is how we change behavior. Everyone will have their breaking point. We don't know how far it has to go. But trust that at least half of the politicians who signed up for this are too dumb, too ignorant of history, to understand what will be asked of them. We don't need all of them. Some are true sociopaths and lost. We just need enough.

The Billionaires, apparently too dumb to understand that they prosper more in a country where everyone else prospers too, may be the last to know. (We do need to help them prosper less, to bring them along). But the rank and file will struggle more and more, less and less tolerant of politicians who can't explain why the wall, the state of emergency, the deportations, the tarriffs, the violence and the suffering, are not making their personal finances any better.