Splintering speech
A cartoon by Nick Anderson
Nick Anderson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist whose cartoons have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post and elsewhere. Find him on Substack at nickanderson.substack.com.
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Persecution of liberal and democratic institutions is nigh. Authoritarianism is going to be the new landscape of the United States. Everyone who reads this will know someone personally who is held to account by the feds for political or cultural pronouncements which will be identified as subversive. The only saving grace is that authoritarians will not be able to tolerate broad gun ownership, but for gun owners the authoritarian state will have consolidated control and their protestations will fall on deaf ears. Ammunition will become illegal to sell along with the components of gun powder. Sounds crazy—I know, but it will have to happen if the neo-fascists are to achieve their goals. Sorry.
Doesn't he look a lot like Eichmann in that caricature?
And Miller is Jewish, which, to me, makes this rhetoric and his call to violence exponentially viler, eviler, and more incomprehensible, because the actions he is calling for could (some might say will) be used against him (and the rest of us Jews) just like that (insert finger-snapping sound here).