‘Trump’s thugs’: GOP group’s powerful ad warns paramilitary assault in Portland ‘is how freedom dies’

07/20/2020 12:24 pm ET • Dara Brewton

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A comic-book style video created by The Lincoln Project warns that the paramilitary assault in Portland is ‘how freedom dies.”

“This is how it starts,” focuses on the secret police (“Trump’s thugs”) who are terrorizing Portland’s citizens exercising their 1st Amendment rights. It warns viewers that “shadowy men” are shoving people into unmarked vans, and “faceless enforcers say you don’t have the right to protest.”

This ad also encourages viewers to vote on November 3rd. It warns that if we don’t get Trump out of office, “we know how it ends.”

WATCH:

Time to raise our voices

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People are ready to fight to save democracy.

Yes. This. We all need to raise our voices now—the use of a federal, interagency shadow “police” force that functions outside the law is not something we can ever, ever accept in America.

— Jesse Damiani (@JesseDamiani) July 19, 2020

If you don’t stand for us in Portland, no one will stand for you when your city is next.

— Thot’s of a Croc (@OregonProgress) July 19, 2020

This is fascism

A photograph of National Guard troops blocking access to the Lincoln Memorial.

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Twitter thinks it is time to call it like it is because “this is how it starts”…

This is fascism. Many scholars withheld that term prior to Lafayette Sq because fascism requires use of the military. Trump is full-on fascist. Many don’t know what it means. Please share. We need everyone to understand what’s really happening & what’s at stake. pic.twitter.com/ouVMe2rO8R

— Russia Paid Bounties to Kill U.S. Soldiers (@emulvey2001) July 20, 2020

Do you think they were aware in the very beginning ? pic.twitter.com/IqvaPwtE3f

— RKannie3 (@rosalita356) July 19, 2020

We must elect Joe Biden

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Americans are afraid.

I work for @Jews4Biden and I am telling you the “Secret Police” is scaring my community. It’s a path of clear and pressing danger. We must elect @JoeBiden and we need to do it decisively.

— Ethan Wolf (@ewolf_7) July 19, 2020

I know I am scared. Imagine what They have planned for the fall before the election. Not sure what we can really do but vote. They control all the power right now 😱

— marybl (@marybl62) July 19, 2020

Twitter found a hero

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Not all heroes wear capes…

This unmarked criminal force is no match for the people!
🖕🖕 love this guy!
Go Navy!#VoteTrumpOut #VoteGOPOut pic.twitter.com/0QI6L0aUGV

— Mazen🍕🏌️‍♂️🤷‍♂️⛳️ (@JustAMazen) July 19, 2020

Can anyone stop Trump?

Trump standing at a podium pointing at the crowd

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Twitter wants to know why other government officials aren’t stepping in and doing something.

Why can’t anyone stop this lunatic? Look at what he is doing, this isn’t normal, how is he getting away with this? He said he was going to dominate the streets and that is what he is doing, waging war in our own country. This is appalling

— RandyNYC (@_jazzlife) July 19, 2020

This is indeed frightening: this is how a take- over starts to destroy democracy & the rule of law- the Nazis did exactly this with the S.A. Or Brownshirts on Germany- spread terror & disappear people. The legally authorities in Oregon need to confront this in force and stop it.

— Lawrence Dudley📚✍🏻🕵️‍♀️🍑 (@WriterLDudley) July 17, 2020