Abstract

Abstract:

As I write this, armed protesters have occupied the Michigan statehouse to protest the state's stay-at-home orders. Men in fatigues and MAGA hats, some wielding assault-style long guns, filled the lobby outside the house floor, where lawmakers debated a twenty-eight-day extension to Governor Gretchen Whitmer's state of emergency. Whitmer, a Democrat, has become a target of particular bile, thanks in part to President Trump's tendency to single her out ("that woman from Michigan," he called her, and later, "Gretchen 'Half' Whitmer"). Protesters have taken to calling her "Governor Hitler."

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