AMUSING, INTERESTING, OUTRAGEOUS, or PROFOUND

ORIGINAL LINK: cnn.com

Rep. Sean Casten, a Democrat from Illinois... said that activist leaders have told him and colleagues that they fear protests against Trump might eventually be used as a predicate for declaring martial law. Other House Democrats echoed this privately, and several left-leaning activist group leaders told CNN directly that their own safety concerns for participants have risen since the president’s blanket pardons for January 6 rioters.

“It only took 50 days for Hitler to destroy democracy in Germany,” Casten said, arguing that there are direct parallels to those moves and much of what Trump is doing. “Part of our job right now as Democrats in Washington inside of this is to be Churchillian, very clear-eyed about what the stakes of this moment are, what the parallels in history are, remind people that the majority of Americans are good people, and that the way you shut a bully down is to punch back.”

Dear Rep. Sean Casten (D-Illinois), cordially, respectfully:

Martial law is coming. That's part of fascism. If you use "martial law is coming" as an argument against protest, you might as well surrender now.