A state lawmaker and her husband have been murdered in what authorities have deemed a targeted, politically motivated assassination. It is now open season in the former United States on anyone who opposes the Trump regime

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{BBC News 14 June} Democratic state politician and husband shot dead in targeted attack, Minnesota officials say.

Open season now in the former United States on anyone opposed to the Trump regime. The blood of Melissa Hortman and her husband is on the hands of every single rank-and-file Trump voter, whether they like it or not; a nation held hostage by violently ill sociopaths at all levels. Whatever performative and half-hearted condemnations Trump, other elected Republicans, and right-wing media figures may be giving at this moment to the contrary, this is the inevitable result of #MAGA rhetoric.

Can anyone who has been paying attention genuinely doubt this has always been the intended outcome? To systematically inflame the heavily armed, anti-intellectual portion of the populace long steeped in racial, cultural, religious, and economic resentments against the rest of the nation — a very large percentage of the overall population, far larger than most care to admit. While Trump, the GOP, and its allies in the halls of power are giving lip service to being outraged, and the sort of Republican voters who are not rabid #MAGA probably are legitimately shocked and dismayed, most of the rank-and-file #MAGA crazies are celebrating the murders in Minnesota. Further violent copycat acts are inevitable for as long as this violent and outsized, Christofascist personality cult holds a death grip on the country. —Arthur Newhook, 14 June 2025.

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