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What do you see right now in the country, in Illinois?

What do you fear the most in the dark of the night, the inevitability of what follows next and next after that.

Okay, I hope we can, we'll touch on a hopeful note, but, you know, we're a country on

the end.

This is, this is the house divided against itself, led by men and women who want to divide it. Look, there's no mystery about what Stephen

Miller's vision for America is, you know, what he's whispering in Donald Trump's ears, the kinds

of things. And it becomes more radical all the time. So I think, you know, you and I have talked

about this before, the failure of imagination to imagine how bad Trump can be. We can't allow that to happen right now. So they're talking there. Look, I wrote this the other day. I don't know if you agree, but there's no question of my mind. Donald Trump will at some point invoke the Insurrection Act, which is one step from martial law. If you would have said that six months ago,

we'd be excused of Trump Duranement syndrome.

I think they fully intend to do that.

People like Stephen Miller are hoping.

They are hoping for more acts of violence

so that they can use that as the pretext or more draconian

invasions of American cities. But there don't even have to be acts of violence. I think this is

their plan. This is their intention. They are lusting for it. I was talking with Susan Glasser

on my podcast yesterday about this. You know, you,

you watch what I call Maga porn. They, they love the images of the brutality. You know,

Christie Noam, you know, the puppy killer, the Donald Trump put in charge of mass deportation,

made a sizzle real video of that horrific attack on

an apartment building in Chicago. I think people just don't gloss over that. I mean, it happened.

The masked agents who come in, guns drawn, you know, zip-tie children in the middle of the night.

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