If we can see these tactics, it’s time for our country to take a long look in the mirror and decide if this is what we want, what our forces fought for in war, and what our guiding documents are meant to establish.

- Politicize independent institutions
- Spread disinformation
- Concentrate executive power
- Quash dissent
- Scapegoat vulnerable communities
- Corrupt elections
- Stoke violence

It’s not. Don’t make the same mistake made by conservatives. He is being censored by a private employer. It’s a terrible decision, but it’s not a violation of his right to free speech.

And now his employer may pay a price as well.

and you would not have faced an argument 25 years ago. And yet the agenda is so framed by Trump and his minions that these notions are being discussed openly and in some cases put into action without serious challenge by the media.

or accepting the idea that it is OK legally and morally to snatch people off the street wearing masks or to decide whom to interview and detain based on accent or skin color. It is not liberal to call these things out,

I’m certainly not saying that people who are journalists can’t make mistakes or misspeak, but we are seeing a trend that is allowing dialogue that has not been acceptable for decades to suddenly become mainstream, such as people legitimately talking about taking away rights from women

And yet we have so much handwringing amongst the major news outlets for not being perceived as liberally biased or not getting on the wrong side of the president, and they are doing the work of the authoritarian for him.

We also saw no pushback from Fox and Friends when the president suggested that he doesn’t care about bringing people together in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s killing. We’ve also seen at least one Fox host throw up a Nazi salute at a conservative gathering, without consequence.

Moreover, we routinely see journalists in conservative media say things that are much worse and face no blowback. Just recently, Brian Kilmeade on Fox suggested that people who are homeless and who do not accept help should simply be killed. Should we then fire Brian Kilmeade?

He did not endorse the killing, but he did suggest that hate speech brings about hateful action. This is perhaps not the best way to articulate himself, but he should not have been fired.

I hope there is no more violence toward anyone, but I do not foresee President Trump rising to the occasion in the way that Americans need right now.

This man should not have been murdered. But what I am seeing yesterday and today is conservatives pretending as though the person at the very top of their movement isn’t largely responsible for the ill will and demonization that has become the norm in our political atmosphere.

He did not seize the moment to calm the political waters, but instead further inflamed them, And this is no surprise as he has made such violent dialogue is calling card.

He said nothing about the murders of Democrats, the attempted kidnapping of Governor Whitmer, the arson of the house of the governor of Illinois, or any other defenses perpetrated against figures on the left.

But this is not what happened, was it? Instead, the president took to the airwaves and called out only political violence perpetrated by the radical left.

He would be the very model of civility and high minded dialogue, even as he worked fervently to accomplish his goals for America. Who would’ve thought this possible?