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Dear “Donald Trump’s America”, Fox News and “Law and Order Republicans”

Richard Greene
9 min readAug 29, 2020

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Maybe it’s not just George Floyd and Breona Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery and Rayshard Brook and Jacob Blake.

Maybe black people, and brown people, and white people, and old people, and young people are protesting and marching in the streets because we — all — are afraid of “Donald Trump’s Lawless America”

Maybe it’s not just lawless cops who will choke or shoot first and ask questions later.

Maybe it’s lawless moms who will drive their 17 olds to peaceful protests and arm them with AR-15s to kill all of us.

Maybe it’s because we all see you and your party and your supporters break every law and rule and norm that has made us all free and safe for hundreds of years.

Maybe it’s because we studied history and have experiences that guide us.

Maybe because we’re a bit scared when the Leader of “Donald Trump’s America” literally says “I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters”.

Maybe it’s because as Leader, this same man said “”The Federal Government has ABSOLUTE POWER”. And then continues by saying, “It has the power. As to whether or not I’ll use that power, we’ll see”. That scared us then. And even more when his White Nationalist…

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Richard Greene
Richard Greene

Written by Richard Greene

“The Civics Dean” is a Political Communication Strategist and a former attorney and “Civics Educator” and author of “WTF are ‘The Midterms’?” @TheCivicsDean

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