MS NOW Only Goes 4.5 Hours Before Making First Trump-Nazi Analogy

Stanley: “Because it’s this — ICE is lawless, ICE is lawless. And there does not seem to be any way of, as it were, policing ICE’s behavior. And that brings me to another point, which is that local police are really important here. And we learned about this from history as well. My grandmother talks about how on Kristallnacht in Germany, a local policeman helped a Jewish citizen escape from the SA. The local police are there to protect the local residents. If somebody is doing something illegal to a local resident, whoever it is, the local police, it’s their responsibility to intervene. So now that we’ve got this kind of lawless organization essentially invading American cities, these questions from history are now going to become much more salient in these lessons from history.”
Velshi: “We’ve seen the examples, by the way, in Chicago and in Portland, of local police standing up to these federalized authorities. In fact, they — ICE is saying they’re going into Charlotte, North Carolina now. And last night, one of the first things that happened is the police department put out a statement to say, ‘Here’s all the things we don’t do as police, and we’re not going to assist in these things. We are not here for federal law enforcement. It’s not our remit, and we’re not going to engage in it, and we’re going to make sure that our officers are not involved in it.’ We’re edging toward a confrontation between armed people, in some cases.”
Stanley: “Well, to stave off authoritarianism, everyone just has to do their job. Police just have to protect their local residents. That’s their patriotic duty. That’s their job. Teachers just have to teach history. We’ve talked about this before, Ali. It’s — we have a system, a rule of system of law. If everyone in this democracy does what they’re supposed to do, teach history if you’re a teacher, protect residents if you’re police, then we can get through this. But we also are, let’s face it, seeing extensions of patterns that we’ve already had. For instance, felon disenfranchisement was used to intimidate black voters in Florida recently from showing up, like, arresting people, saying, ‘Oh, you weren’t legally allowed to vote. You didn’t know that you had this felony ages ago.’ That was so — so, we’re seeing that that’s a similar tactic, and it’s being directed against black and brown citizens to prevent them from engaging civically, to create a kind of dual citizenship, first- and second-class tier of citizenship. So we have to be aware of that as we move forward here.”