After Pearl Harbor 1941, FDR refused suggestions to surround the White House with light tanks because it might look as if our democracy was under siege: pic.twitter.com/0LR7WwqCld— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) June 4, 2020
This is now.
More fencing going up around the White House complex early this morning pic.twitter.com/VLBRnx1lgz— Betsy Klein (@betsy_klein) June 4, 2020
Trump began his term promising to build a wall to protect America from the world.— Nick Confessore (@nickconfessore) June 4, 2020
He ends it building a wall to protect himself from Americans. pic.twitter.com/mzvfIBVOSg
When you don't take government of the people, by the people, and for the people, seriously, at least every four years, this is what you get.
Didn't Doonsbury do a series of strips with Nixon's White House slowly disappearing behind a wall and machine gun nests?
ReplyDeleteAs is always true with walls, are they keeping people out or keeping people in? It looking less and less like a fortress and more, more like a prison.
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