Trump: “We're doing the worst of the worst always first.”
It’s clear that isn’t true.
Goal posts have also been moved to label any immigrant that follows the paths towards citizenship as criminals. So now they can say they are only deporting the criminals.
And on the other side of the mess is their continued attacks on trans folks. The “right” have maintained their position that trans is a mental illness.
It seems they have now started a new campaign against trans people after the Minnesota killings that target trans gender affirming medicines as “psychiatric” and claiming the US has a “mental health crisis” while entirely focused on trans folks.
They are whistling through their teeth and it’s disgusting.
The US could do soooo much better with mental health instead of sticking folks into jails to hide them away without treatment. They could have many more programs and outreach.
Instead? They have chosen this moment to make a farce of what legitimate mental health needs there are in the US by lumping trans folks into that category and focusing on them.
They will come for the rest of the LGBTQIA+ community and label everyone mentally ill and those who speak out as terrorists.