"According to Clinton, such incidents reveal that fear has become the central objective of federal enforcement under the current administration, rather than public safety or justice, writing: Trump and his allies believe that the more inhumane the treatment, the more likely it is to spread fear. That's the goal of surging heavily armed federal forces into blue states such as Minnesota and Maine street theater of the most dangerous kind."
"The savagery is a feature, not a bug, she later added of the MAGA movement. In a central focus of the essay, moving beyond Minnesota, Clinton argued the glorification of cruelty and rejection of compassion she claims is evident in Trump's policies appeals most to a cadre of hard-right Christian influencers' that she argued are waging a war on empathy. In particular, she pointed to one podcaster who coined the phrase toxic empathy in a sermon."
The MAGA movement is portrayed as transforming savagery into a moral value and treating compassion as weakness while celebrating cruelty. Video of Alex Pretti's killing in Minneapolis is compared to the parable of the good Samaritan to illustrate a shift toward punitive, fear-driven federal actions that prioritize intimidation over public safety or justice. Heavily armed federal deployments into blue states are described as deliberate displays meant to spread fear. The glorification of cruelty is said to resonate with hard-right Christian influencers who promote concepts like "toxic empathy," potentially empowering an extreme strain of Christian nationalism.
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