"BUT THIS ISN'T WHO WE ARE!" (NARRATOR: IT IS)

When we cheered for imperial tactics under Democrats, we laid the groundwork for fascism under Trump. The tools of empire always come home.

HEY CAN WE HAVE A QUICK CHAT about what’s known as ‘the imperial boomerang’?

Yes, I know it sounds like a Jason Bourne knock-off that you’d be forced to watch at 2am on a flight, but it’s not. It’s the historical pattern where tactics, technologies, and systems of oppression that empires first develop and use against colonized populations abroad eventua…