President Donald Trump on Monday showed his first signs of retreat since surging federal immigration agents in Minnesota late last year — replacing the leader of the crackdown on the ground and signaling new willingness to cooperate with the state’s Democratic elected officials.
It’s both things that are spooking GOP donors; the 2A stuff (unbelievably stupid thing for them to say, given their base) and the two dead white folks. That shit doesn’t play with Republican voters. They cheer for authoritarian bullshit because they firmly believe it will never affect them. Two white people getting executed in the street in less than a month is making the white suburban middle class feel seriously spooked.
As a cop in the US you can murder brown people all day every day. White voters will always find a way to justify it in their minds. Even when they think it was bad, they’ll still accept it in return for whatever they think they’re getting. But you can go killing whites. That was their biggest mistake.
Insert Heath Ledger “Suddenly everyone loses their minds” bit here.