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Ronald Reagan’s farewell address. “ I’ve spoken of the shining city all of my political life, but I don’t know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind it was a tall proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, wind swept, God blessed and 1/https://twitter.com/ktumulty/status/1287126655606108161 …

Teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace-a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity, and if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors, and the doors were open to anyone with the will and heart to get here”.

He would have been revolted by Trump’s rancidity, malice, corruption, incompetence and sheer stupidity. He would have been appalled at Trump coddling dictators and thugs and in disbelief about a President doing nothing while the Russians paid bounties for dead American 3/

Soldiers. Reagan was born in 1911. He would know precisely what he was looking at in this Summer of 2020. He would look at Trump and he would see a Fascist. It is time for all of America to wake up. We are a nation where the rule of law must always be supreme. We are 4/

A government OF THE PEOPLE , BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE. We tell the government what to do in this country. The President is a servant not a master. We are in an hour of peril like no other in our history. Trump is threatening the deployment of 75,000 heavily armed and 5/

Outrageously militarized Federal goons into America’s cities. It is nothing less than a politicized invasion of America by stormtroopers who look increasingly indistinguishable from fascist brown shirts and black shirts in their actions. Policing is a civilian function. The 6/

Charter is to “protect and serve”. This is the domain of local, county and state agencies. What is happening is sinister, illiberal and frightening. Trump, Barr and Wolfe are probing the perimeter to see what they can get away with. Reagan observed that freedom is always 7/