This Will End in the Streets
Peacefully, We Hope
It’s been two months since I’ve last written. Two months in which :: waves at all of this::
I wanted to write a bit about Pritzker Valley in Antarctica, which was named after my wife, Jennifer Pritzker, who insists it is actually named for the entire family, which has given a great deal to the Field Museum here in Chicago. She herself has been to Antarctica 4 times, myself twice, all on deep field expeditions, where nothing exempts you from your fair share of hard physical labor.
It is a stunningly beautiful photo of a stunningly beautiful place that is also heartbreakingly fragile.
There were times I wanted to send this photo to every one of the fascist monsters running this country. And they do in fact meet every single one of the criteria in Umberto Eco’s essay Ur-fascism, which is to say Fascism unmoored from cultural or national signifiers. (I have a bone or three to pick with it, but that’s for another essay.)
But at heart, they are peasants, and by that, I don’t mean the woman who’s know for ten villages in any direction for her good agricultural practices. I mean Maoists. We can feel that like the Khmer Rouge, beauty hurts their eyes. Truth hurts their eyes. The useful hurts their eyes.
And there is a very large overlap between the beautiful, the useful, and the true.
Hence the regime’s attacks on the arts and the sciences. Just to begin. All these people would see in Antarctica was a place to be pillaged for private profit, not a pristine commons to be protected and preserved.
Because this is a regime, not an administration. But here’s the thing, it is a regime of horrible, hideous men and their Quisling Handmaids who have never faced sustained opposition in their lives. When you peel away their words away from the reality of their policies, I have not read of the Regime instituting a single policy that improves the lives of even one American who actually thought Trump would improve the economy and make her life materially better. (For all the talk about struggling men, more women live in poverty, especially after age 65, and particularly deep poverty, than men.1 And men do not rape men in nearly the same numbers that men rape women. There was a substantial gender gap in Harris vs. Trump voters, and many of the women who voted for Trump needed to quite literally keep the peace with, and sometimes survive, the Trump voters they live with.2)
Indeed, every policy I have read of this Regime instituting or attempting to institute, is meant to damage, to degrade, to render destitute, even unto death, one group or another of Americans.
And you know what? I include undocumented immigrants in that, even though I have huge problems with our immigration policy, to the point you could reasonably call me anti-immigration if you respect the nuances of my thinking. Because I also regard every peaceable immigrant of goodwill to be an American, regardless of documentation, entitled to every human and most political rights of American citizens, while I think the pathway to citizenship should be clear, straightforward, and easy. Pardon my digression.
When the Regime’s bureaucrats can’t fall asleep, I think they masturbate to the idea of hurting Americans. I could almost forgive them if they were in the service of a tyrant intent on using his power to break the hold of money on our society who decided, when I get done with you Americans, you’re all gonna have citizen medicine, and easy access to great education—whatever your interests and needs—and we’re gonna create an economy where we can all create, and contribute, and collaborate, and cooperate, and live in dignity. In 1932, Adolf Hitler actually offered more, in real terms, to most of the German people than these American apparatchiki do to us today.
The ideology of the Regime is one of unlimited greed for plunder and pain. And then having slept the sleep of the righteously sadistic, they wake up to implement their ideas. So each day, they make more enemies.
The Alt National Park Service estimates some 13.14 million Americans showed up to the No Kings rallies.3 Don’t think they didn’t have allies who were not physically present. For sure, I spent the weekend on my bike, riding 110 miles training for a ride to raise money to help restore some of the funding the Tangerine Traitor cut: 110 miles logged over the weekend. (Also, it helps me stay sane. This is a long campaign for the future of America as a constitutional democratic republic and we do what we need to.)
The citizens, the patriots who showed up for our compatriots and country, were peaceful despite grotesque provocations: including the assassination of Minnesota State Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark, and the attempted assassination of Minnesota State Senator John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. They were shot by a man pretending to be a police officer, a move calculated to increase the distrust of all loyal Americans in the police, whom we should, be able to trust to enforce the law without fear or favor or sadism. But we cannot. The assassin, who hated women and therefore life itself, murdered Rep. Hortman specifically because she stood up for the lives, liberty, and human and civic honor of American women. He was a reproductive slaver. Many acts described as heroic are not because they involve no risk to life or limb or liberty: Yvette Hoffman is a genuine pro-life hero who covered her daughter with her own body.4
Many of us have already been lost, including every woman who has been forced to create and give life a child she did not want, at horrific personal cost; including every man deported to the CECOT death factory in El Salvador where they are being slowly tortured to death. Many more will not survive.
But with every one of us lost, the regime gains new enemies in their survivors. With every sadistic act against Americans and the idea of America itself, which all those of us who genuinely love America deeply believe in, this regime makes more enemies.
Now think about this. Last weekend, We the People put over 13 million Americans, every one of whom has a legitimate and mortal grievance against the regime, into the streets. And in the face of murderous provocation, they were peaceful.
That is organization.
That is discipline.
That is a show of force.
Before the election, which was stolen in many different ways, starting with massive voter suppression, Kevin Roberts of the Heritage Foundation, and a leader of the treasonous Project 2025, said he would unleash a second American revolution that would be bloodless if the left allowed it to be.
It is my belief that he has unleashed that second revolution—and he is red-handed with the blood of the innocent, beginning with all the women forced to continue their pregnancies and shed blood in childbirth. He and the rest of these vile human beings who have betrayed their country and their compatriots are on the wrong side of an organized, disciplined movement capable of putting millions and millions of Americans, again, every single one of whom has a legitimate, mortal grievance against them, into the streets, bound only by our self-restraint, because we want this to end well. Because we are sick of unnecessary suffering.
Wiser people would fear the possibility of that self-restraint giving way.
There’s a saying for that. Beware the anger of a gentle man.
Beware, also, of the anger of gentle women.
This will end in the streets.
The Regime wants it to end in blood: they are deliberately provoking the American people to resort to violent self-defense of our lives and liberties. Because the last time the Tangerine Traitor was in power, he was responsible for the deaths of 1 million Americans due to Covid, and they want to better the body count.
We, the People, want it to end peacefully, even for the Regime. And while justice, delivered by the due process required by the Constitution, is the inherently violent due process of the rule of law, it is also not revolutionary violence.
All sane women and men fear that.
But the Regime is not sane. They are playing a dreadfully dangerous game.
Pray it ends well for them, and thus us.
nwlc.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/2023_nwlc_PovertySnapshot-converted.pdf; https://www.davisjournal.com/2025/01/31/521769/women-are-80-more-likely-than-men-to-face-poverty-after-age-65
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gdeeqv724o
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