The White House press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, didn’t change her job title today to Minister of Propaganda, but she may as well have. This is what happened.

.⁦@PressSec⁩ opens up today’s briefing with a video. “Law and order” has become a key campaign theme. She opened with this instead of a reference to the increasing #Covid_19 cases across the country. pic.twitter.com/SCTY9OAH8s

— Jeff Mason (@jeffmason1) July 24, 2020

The president wants Americans to believe cities like Portland are sloughs of violence and crime, where liberals burn effigies of baby Jesus and eat human flesh. (I kid, but only to make a point.) Meanwhile, the president’s paramilitaries are doing this:

Oh my God feds took this woman in Portland last night just for dancing with flowers. pic.twitter.com/5VbdkrhYOu

— Read Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler (@JoshuaPotash) July 24, 2020

There are many things we don’t know because we can’t know. We do know, however, that lots of Americans want to see nameless and badge-less secret police punishing people who need to be punished. They are rooting for more in a second term.

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