There’s a dance happening in Washington right now. It’s called the Centrist Shuffle. It involves two steps to the right. Next is a quick pivot toward “bipartisanship.” Finally, there’s a total abandonment of the communities that voted these folks into office. The music? A $64.4 billion appropriation for the Department of Homeland Security. The casualties? Real people. In Minneapolis. In your neighborhood. Maybe even in your family.
Let me connect two dots that mainstream media seems determined to keep separated.