...In which the DP editorial board demonstrates to the public how easily they are gaslit. What is this, good cop bad cop? Please. It's about the racism, the xenophobia, the hard authoritarianism, and the white supremacy. It's also about all manner of unsavory animus possessing like a demon the body of our Federal government. Stop soft-pedaling, call it what it is: corruption has occupied and subverted to fascism our liberal democracy. Its iconoclasts broadcast their contempt for and degradations of civilization and its symbols. Their inequitable sociopathic anti-humanitarian darkness is profound, legion, and it is creeping closer. Raise the alarm. Raise the alarm. Raise the alarm. Louder. Harder. Faster. More stridently. The fate of mankind and the free world depends in part upon you doing what is sufficient.