Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was shot to death by ICE in Houston. That is the tragic topic of discussion. But because she couldn’t defend it, she deflected to a pardon case in Minnesota, a thousand miles away, and a crime, admittedly heinous, committed 20 years ago. But if you are going to invoke the unrelated case, please at least have researched it thoroughly. Of course, they never do. They are lazy at this job. I, on the other hand, anticipate everything. It’s easy because they are so predictable.

This is what has been unleashed in this country: a return to emboldened racism. They feel validated and vindicated. They no longer have to couch their bigotry in polite language. It can now, once again, be raw and visceral. This is what we are fighting people.