...what about the others?

There's an insidious grading up of targets from migrants, to all people of color, to...

...how republicans' list of people in the country they're against shifts with the maga tide - even as the maga list of wrongs is starting to lean against the interests of many of them.

...like the judge.

are going to have to make some hard decisions. We have a criminal government wiping their feet on the Constitution and daring the rest of us to do anything about it. I honestly believe real Americans still take their sworn oaths seriously.

...inflection point stuff.

Americans are accepting what he is doing and not standing up to him or to his fascist party.

Threw babies into gas chambers. I think too many Americans harbor that level of hatred.

Sooner or later it will affect all of us because the “rules of engagement” are stupid.

...people in between the oppressed and the elite

I actually think the regular military does better at 'rules of engagement' than the cosplay soldiers in ICE.

That's why they're advantaging the military, manpower and resources, to support their irregular troops who have none of the knowlege of, or care for rules of engagement ingrained into their actions that the actual military has (had).

Link to tweet

the American people are not divided in the way he thinks they are or wants them to be.

One can say they are divided in so many ways that as one people, they don't know of any one thing to unite around. They've been hoodwinked, bamboozled, run amok.

That is not an American exceptionalism, either; this is what divides humans all over the world -- whether to live in the easier delusional world of Self, or to live in a harder reality world of others.

The dark, cynical message from the self-absorbed narcissist leader is that everyone needs to be united with him and to hell with the rest of humanity because, what've they got to lose yadda yadda.

The judge's is a good question and while it's your question, too, I gotta say that he's the judge and as judge must commit to answering his own question. The fans in the arena can't make the judgment call for him.

I said it's a good question, but that doesn't mean it's the right question.
This is not the question that Americans need to know and answer.

Answer the question of Americans' vision for their descendants, and the judge's question will be answered.

Which is: Are Americans divided about committing to a happier, more free, more prosperous and verdant future for their descendants?

The real on-the-ground divide of the American people is between those who are so lazy that they fear, hate or are indifferent to their neighbor, and those who do the work of loving their neighbor as themselves. And that they teach their children wisely and well by example.
Hate is easy. Love is hard.