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Last episode, we heard American Petroleum Institute President Mike Summers talk about his concern that a small fringe was threatening our way of life.

A small fringe is stuck in the past. They oppose growth, expansion, and new infrastructure. They're against new jobs, higher living standards.

Trump, the president with the most fossil fuel money backing of any president ever, is not so subtle.

What they've done to the country is just incredible.

The environmentalists, I mean, they are terrorists.

They were terrorists.

I call them the environmental terrorists.

Repression of dissent is a key marker of fascism,

as is the targeting of an internal enemy,

which for the Trump administration includes climate activists, the nebulous catch-all

Antifa, and of course, immigrants. Breaking into people's cars and homes in scenes that evoke Nazi

Germany or Stalinist Russia. What is happening right now in America is evil and it is completely

illegal. We're even hearing about it from folks who helped elect Trump in the first place.

You don't want militarized people in the streets just roaming around, snatching people up.

Are we really going to be the Gestapo? Where's your papers? Is that what we've come to?

And of course, it's all connected.

The immigration enforcement apparatus is being used to punish non-citizens who engage in protest of any kind, for example.

Arresting and threatening to deport non-citizen students and faculty for engaging in lawful political protest is a practice we associate with authoritarian regimes.

For the record, the courts have ruled over and over again that non-citizens do have the right to free speech.

And of course, we laid out in our season the real free speech threat how the creation of the Department of Homeland Security

and the U.S. War on Terror led very quickly to an expanded definition of terrorist, which

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