You're making a mistake assuming that I'm using rhetoric to win elections or build a base. I actually believe, because there is ample evidence to support it, t

You're making a mistake assuming that I'm using rhetoric to win elections or build a base. I actually believe, because there is ample evidence to support it, that this administration's goal is ethnic cleansing via mass deportations, immigration controls, and mass incarceration. I believe anybody who is ignoring this evidence, and anybody who is able to compartmentalize the grave, mortal danger that members of targeted minority groups now find themselves in as "just politics", actually does not consider those targeted minority groups as fully human. For whatever reason, you think that's so extreme that I couldn't possibly actually believe it. But I'm being really straightforward. That's what I believe. There's ample evidence to back up those beliefs. I don't care if I alienate some people by saying what I believe is true. Trump's mass deportation machine is ramping up now. I and thousands of others have trained to intervene directly in deportations, and those networks have already been mobilized to prevent people from being kidnapped from their own homes. That's the base I'm interested in building. And conveying anything less than the full scale of the terror that targeted minority groups are facing, or asking for anything less than the assistance they are calling for, is a mistake.