Loaded For Bear

If there is any doubt remaining that Trump, if he returns to power in January, will make opposition to him a capital offense, then Trump's latest outrage should sweep away all that.

In Arizona, he told Tucker Carlson in a public forum that Liz Cheney ought to be placed in front of a firing squad to see how she, who supported the wars in the Middle East in the 2000s and 2010s, would feel if she had nine rifles pointed at her face, ready to be fired.

That is, execution by firing squad.

Okay . . . Christian nationalism . . . one-party rule . . . monitoring pregnancies . . . and now firing squads as a form of capital punishment . . . I'm sorry, when did the entire country suddenly become like Utah??? 

Trump was particularly peeved at how Liz Cheney, like her father, could possibly support sending young men to war without ever having actually served in one.  If Trump wanted to highlight the fact that neither of the Cheneys never served in the military and  yet were "chicken hawks" who supported endless wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, he could have done it without threatening Liz with guns in her face.  Though, any criticism of the Cheneys as chicken hawks would have had much more resonance coming from a man who didn't claim to have bone spurs to avoid serving in Vietnam.

The Arizona Attorney General's office is investigating Trump's comments as a possible hate crime.