by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
I saw on Twitter someone compared what’s going on politically relative to the reaction to the murder of Alex Pretti as “Trump’s Stalingrad.” As you may know, the battle for Stalingrad was the moment that Hitler’s hold on the German fatherland began to falter.
I just don’t see that at the moment.
I do think that Pretti’s murder is a major turning point in Trump’s second term, but it’s not something that will actually harm the regime politically. If anything, it will just make the two sides farther apart from each other.
I say this in the context that something similar happened in the post January-6th Insurrection world.
I know the issue hasn’t gotten the play in MAGA land that maybe we would like because none of the MAGA people in my life have made a point of mentioning it to ME. When THAT happens, then, well, something big has happened.
But as it stands, it seems like things aren’t going to get any better. All that will have changed is the context of events that happen later.
