“I’ll say it, and with a damn heavy heart.

We have squandered the astounding inheritance of ten generations of Americans before us, shattered the bond of faith and trust in a system of representative government unique in the history of the world, and replaced it with a grotesque mirror image of freedom, liberty, and self-government.

What has replaced it is dark, sick, and broken. It is a government led by the most egregious criminal in American political history, a man with a dark soul, a twisted mind racked with mental disorders and pathologies, and a will to power that rivals the dictators and strongmen we once understood without a blink of doubt or question to be the antithesis of our values. He is the kind of man Americans once sent their son to fight and defeat.

He is served by a party, a movement, and a media that view him as a nearly religious figure, a man of destiny willing to smite the people and cultures they hate. Some view him as a useful idiot, delivering regulatory and tax giveaways to America’s struggling billionaire class.

Some view him as a messiah, God’s arm to smite the unbelievers. Some see him as the future of a nationalist authoritarian system better suited to their ends than the messy Republic for which we stood.

He is empowered by a mendacious, cowardly, and sadistic cadre of aides, advisors, Cabinet officials, and influencers across a constellation of social media platforms wired to divide America and promote his goals.

The results are now playing out in our streets, and the butcher’s bill for his corruption of America is being written in blood.

Renee Good’s death was a feature, not a bug, a goal, not an accident.

Renee Good was a casualty of war against the American people, of a calculated indifference to the rights and liberties of every American citizen at the hands of a criminal enterprise masquerading as law enforcement.

Her death serves as the definitive proof that the “blood-and-soil” rhetoric of this Administration has a tangible, human cost. The machinery of government has weaponized against its own people, meant to strike terror into Americans who oppose the Administration.

Her violent and bloody murder served a purpose: it signaled to the MAGA movement that the old rules, the sacred inheritance of the rights of every citizen to life and liberty, were officially dead. “Cross us and die” is the new reality.

Hers was the first death to penetrate the minds of the American people at the hands of this evil Administration, but she will sadly not be the last.” —Rick Wilson