MAGA knows DC takeover isn't about crime -- which is why they love it

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MAGA knows DC takeover isn’t about crime — which is why they love it
Trump's war on the Smithsonian reveals that this is about childish resentment, not safety

By Amanda Marcotte
Senior Writer
Published August 25, 2025 6:45AM (EDT)


(Salon) Ever since Donald Trump orchestrated a federal takeover of Washington, D.C.’s law enforcement, complete with the National Guard being shipped in from at least three red states, defenders of the nation’s capital have painstakingly demonstrated this is a political stunt and is not about stopping crime.

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As usual, the White House’s response is to lie about all of this. Trump and his goons say restaurant traffic is up, which is hilariously false. Vice President J.D. Vance said, “Let’s free D.C. from lawlessness.” White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller had a screeching meltdown on camera, insisting only “stupid white hippies” are mad about the takeover and declaring that Black people love him and the president for their actions. In reality, 80% of Black D.C. residents oppose the troop deployment. Fox News dutifully claims this is all about “crime” — ignoring that the agents sent into the streets are mostly harassing ordinary people, while ignoring actual crime.

What’s a little unclear, however, is who this phony Republican talk about “crime” is for. It’s certainly not for liberals or even centrists, who appear to understand full well that Trump is trying to terrorize the innocent people of D.C., not to fight crime. But it’s not like the MAGA base cares about the “crime” non-issue either. Don’t get me wrong: The MAGA base loves this so-called “crackdown.” But not because it’s making D.C. safe. They love that it’s making D.C. miserable. They appear to know the victims of this charade aren’t criminals, but ordinary people just trying to live their lives. MAGA is getting sadistic joy out of terrorizing ordinary people whose only “crime” is living in a diverse, vibrant and majority Democratic city, instead of Cracker Barrel America.

Videos of the new law enforcement harassing or even beating innocent residents of D.C. have circulated heavily online, but it’s not just liberals who are sharing them. Trump supporters love these videos, and, if anything, they are sharing them more than liberals. The right-wing Daily Wire posted a video of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents telling a woman that she’s fat, and it has nearly 250,000 likes on TikTok. Fox News shared a video of ICE agents tearing down an anti-Trump banner, and it now has nearly 5 million views, mostly from conservatives who are relishing this overt violation of basic First Amendment rights. Another MAGA influencer collected over 3.5 million views on a video of homeless people having their tents bulldozed. MAGA influencers also celebrated a video of federal agents yelling at a man for smoking on his patio, calling it “illicit activities” for people to be outside in their own neighborhoods. .................(more)

https://www.salon.com/2025/08/25/maga-knows-dc-takeover-isnt-about-crime-which-is-why-they-love-it/

[flying_wahini]

1. God how much longer will this shit be tolerated?

Is it just me or are Liberals are way too nice sometimes?


I keep thinking about all the Jewish housewives in Germany ‘33
trying to convince their husbands to leave Germany.

It’s a good thing we are nicer than they are but still….

[pfitz59]

2. Vile and violent

it's a sexual turn on to their warped

[Bayard]

3. Our country is sick with racism, corruption, and lies

We need to pull back the curtains and let in the sun.

[Silent Type]

4. It's not about crime, but it is about pandering to ignorant rubes outside big cities. I was watching one of our Reps

just now going on about how there is huge backlash against trump for National Guard deployment.

Yes, there is, in cities that went 70 or 80% for VP Harris. Until we get people dissatisfied who supported trump, don't think we are getting anywhere.

[maxrandb]

5. It's about fucking social media and what passes for news

Today, you can post shit on social media, that, if you said it in a bar, you would get your ass beat.

Social media has unleashed everyone's inner asshole.

Social media has also made it likely that the person giving you advice on vaccine efficacy is a 19 year old bikini model.

It was advertised as the "great enlightening", instead, it's brought a new Midieval Dark Age.

Everybody's drunk uncle has thousands of followers that are convinced he's a fucking genius.

[B.See]

6. Marcotte misses the mark, I think.

It's not about 'childish resentment.' It's about HATE.

It's about racism, bigotry, white nationalist / supremacist sentiment, TRUMPed up LIES, distortion, and hate fueled propaganda...

about scapegoating, VICTIMHOOD, and REVENGE.

All the classic elements of FASCISM.

It's why he's running about LYING about Black people "loving him" and sending out Black props / apologists for his racist shit (a Tom in every plot) to also LIE in the news media, on his behalf.

...Putting into place the necessary elements to seal HIS DICTATORSHIP.

Call it out for what it IS.

[electric_blue68]

7. THIS. Continuing; Unashamed!

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