jackboot

Not in jackboots and armbands, but in curated TV clips using old footage, policy memos, press conferences, and armed deployments justified by lies.

Transparency in government is one of our oldest and most sacrosanct rights; it is what protects us from jackboots in the night.

A disproportionate number not only did not even passively resist but showed themselves eager to lick the polish off Hitler’s jackboots, if necessary.

Sorry, MAGA, but if the jackboot fits, wear it: he is an authoritarian, a statist, a racist, an aspiring fascist, a hateful, mendacious, corrupt traitor, a fool, mentally ill, and frankly evil.

The comedian George Carlin said that it would come not “with jackboots” but “Nike sneakers and smiley shirts.”