Donald Trump’s assault on Minneapolis will be a landmark event in American politics. It could even prove to be MAGA’s Waterloo. Everywhere right now, there’s evidence that Americans who aren’t Democrats or even Democratic-leaning are choosing to believe their own eyes over the administration’s explicitly dishonest explanation for Alex Pretti’s execution. Even the regime’s strongest defenders—from the NRA to Fox News—seem to be uneasy or downright unwilling to play along with Trump’s lies about the murder his goons committed in broad daylight on Saturday.

“I Am One Of The People That Doesn’t Want ILLEGAL ALIENS Here Illegally But This Shit Is Out Of Control,” posted a guy I and a few friends follow for anecdata on how swing voters in my home state are feeling. “People Have NO RIGHTS In This Country With Actions Like These,” he wrote. “FUCK Untrained Ice Officers And FUCK YOUR PRESIDENCY If THIS Is How You RULE,” he added, comparing Trump to Hitler and ICE to the gestapo. A quick look around r/Conservative—the Reddit community for conservatives—shows that this reaction is far from isolated. In each of these cases, it seems people who are in many ways as far removed from a resistance demonstrator as it’s possible to be are coming to the same conclusion as your average No Kings participant: that this regime is dragging the U.S. into authoritarianism.

Trump is politically vulnerable right now. But what happens next depends in part on the opposition. If Democrats and the left want to turn this moment into a real inflection point—permanently cratering Trump’s popularity and MAGA’s power—they need to go all in on this fight. The people of Minneapolis and others all across our country have already been throwing down in incredibly inspiring ways. It’s time for our opposition party to join........

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