Have You Noticed America has Gotten Meaner? [View all]
Have you noticed that people are getting meaner? the villain asks in a Paramount+ promo for their new show Evil.
What does it mean? asks the nice character.
It means, says the evil character with a note of triumph in her voice, that your side is losing.
And here we are. The lede of an above-the-fold story in yesterdays Washington Post lays it out:
In the past 24 hours, there has been an uptick in the number of violent threats against lawmakers on the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, and all lawmakers on the committee are likely to receive a security detail
We need to discuss the violence and threats of violence now endemic to the GOP, because they signal a hopefully reversible but possibly terminal slide into fascism.
https://hartmannreport.com/p/have-you-noticed-america-has-gotten?r=nl8r&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email