Denny Carter (@dennycarter.bsky.social)

Fascism Depends On The Presumption Of Good Faith Linda from Arizona put the president’s personal military force in charge of airport security. You won’t hear much about Linda, however, making executive policy decisions via phone calls to right-wing radio shows. With congressional Republicans refusing to fund the Transportation Security Administration, a willful decision that has created four and five-hour security lines in airports across the US, the president over the weekend posted to his money laundering social media website that the paramilitary that works directly for him – you might know them as ICE – would take over security checkpoints at airports. The president was clear about why he thought ICE-agents-as-TSA-workers was a good idea: To infuriate and terrorize his political enemies and to more easily target and kidnap and deport Black immigrants. There was only one way to interpret his social media post announcing the ICE takeover of American airports: As an act of pure vengeance, of undiluted malice. That's not the way the Newspaper reported it though. ### This post is for subscribers only Become a member to get access to all content Subscribe now https://badfaithtimes.com/fascism-depends-on-the-presumption-of-good-faith/