Charlie Sykes at The Bulwark: “Quite inadvertently, Congressman Matt Gaetz (R-Trump) has stumbled onto something insightful. On Monday, as America absorbed the Die Hard cosplay from this couple in in St. Louis, Gaetz tweeted out his deep thought:”
In Joe Biden’s America your job is illegal, you are locked in your home, borders don’t exist, MS-13 lives next door and the police aren’t coming when the mob arrives.
This is all of us. pic.twitter.com/qS5ZeZQyU8
— Matt Gaetz (@mattgaetz) June 29, 2020
“The dunking commenced immediately. As it turns out this is actually not all of us, unless we are Brooks-Brothers-wearing Kens and Karens, living in a mock Renaissance palazzo mansion in a private gated community and look like utter idiots”
“Despite the efforts to make the couple into MAGA heroes, folks who know things about guns were quick to point out that the McCloskeys’ handling of their weapons was sub-optimal. Check out the trigger and muzzle discipline for starters. We won’t even get in the tangled issue of the legality of brandishing weapons.”
“The image went viral, in part, because Donald Trump was aroused enough to retweet the picture of a white suburbanish couple pointing weapons at unarmed protesters. The day before, Trump had tweeted a video of a supporter shouting ‘white power,’ so we know where the president’s head is at these days.”