For example, over the weekend, Philadelphia district attorney Larry Krasner read the riot attack at the possibility that ICE will bring Minneapolis to Philadelphia. He was not … nuanced. From The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Last week, during a news conference about proposed restrictions on immigration enforcement in Philadelphia, the district attorney said he would “hunt down” and prosecute U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who commit crimes in the city. “There will be accountability now. There will be accountability in the future. There will be accountability after [Trump] is out of office,” Krasner said. “If we have to hunt you down the way they hunted down Nazis for decades, we will find your identities.”
This got up the nose of Governor Josh Shapiro, who has aspirations to improve his living arrangements with an eye on a run-down piece of property in Washington. Shapiro and Krasner don’t dance, and Shapiro seems to be exercised further by Krasner’s recent broadsides.
Shapiro, who is Jewish and is a rumored presidential contender, was interviewed a dozen times last week on national media while promoting his new memoir and condemned ICE’s tactics during all of them. During an interview Thursday on Fox News’ Special Report with Bret Baier, Shapiro was asked about Krasner’s comparison of ICE agents to Nazis and called the comments “unacceptable. … It is abhorrent and it is wrong, period, hard stop, end of sentence,” Shapiro said.
Bullshit. Period. Hard stop. End of sentence. Krasner wasn’t calling anyone a Nazi. He was saying that any federal agents who commit street crimes in his jurisdiction can expect to hear footsteps for the rest of their lives. Which I think should be the case of people up and down this administration. I think the overriding mission of a Democratic administration and a Democratic Congress should not be vengeance but justice for offenses against the law and the republic.
I’m beginning to wonder if we shouldn’t see some of these State AG as our future leaders. They have and are taking the fight to Trump a hellva lot more than some of the other officials. Not that I want more lawyers in office, but it seems trump has really pissed off this countries lawyers.
Anyone who suggests taking the high road needs to get the fuck out of the way. We need leaders who are willing to do what needs to be done.
But if you stoop to their level, you’ll be no better than them! 🙄
Taking the high road got us into this situation to begin with. I’d love to be able to throw my support behind a candidate that is going to take the job as seriously as it needs to be.
if you’re expecting a democrat politician to be anything other than a feckless corporate stooge, then I have some oceanfront property in Colorado to sell you.
I’d love to be wrong but this fantasy about the next president and the underlying assumption that their will be fair presidential elections going forward seems naive at best
Trump tried to steal the 2020 election but was really stopped by Mike pence not playing along. This time he picked JD Vance explicitly to fix this issue.
This vote harder/ we’ll get them back next time idea is a waste of effort in my opinion. Better to funnel that energy into a new political party or mutual aid and organization on the ground.
We will probably hear this tired and cowardly phrase that is so often said by new leadership, something like; “Let’s look forward and not back.”
Yeah we’ll look forward, but first get my cane
