Andrew Egger: “It seems impossible to state this strongly enough: Pretti left his house on Saturday to do what he could to push back on the federal occupation of his city. Then they gunned him down in the street. It felt like a demonstration of maximum state hubris—that the government’s masked and jackbooted thugs could do what they liked to Pretti or anybody else. But just three days later, the thugs aren’t winning. Pretti is.”
“For now, at least. All victories against this administration are temporary. It is still headed by a raging, vengeful narcissist and stuffed to bursting with nihilistic shitheels; it’s safe to say they’ll find creative new ways to punish the American people for their own complexes and insecurities before long. But all anyone can do at moments like this is push back, and push back, and push back again.”
