Came across this elsewhere, and it seems a good reminder of how the Civil Rights fight was actually won.

Successfully fighting for civil rights requires multiple parallel strategies, *and those "lanes" can't overlap*. Someone who's protecting people, for instance, needs to be squeaky clean, legally, so the baddies don't have a pretext to come after them and the people they're protecting--which means they can't be showing up to disruptive protests in person.

@Impossible_PhD This time it's going to be worse. They're going to purge. And these rules, though good are hinged on a set of expected standards that will frankly irrelevant, as will the pointless firewalls between them. Think the Warsaw Ghetto. Think the maoist or stalinish purge. That's what's queuing up. This is a different kind of madness we face that doesn't give a busted dingo nut damn about due process or habeas corpus. The closest American analogue is the Lynchings.

@Beggarmidas
Okay, doomer.

I don't see a structural reality anything like those situations, and Trump is absolutely no Mao or Hitler or Stalin.