“Just for the record, my deputies don’t wear masks,” Swank told a state legislative committee recently. “But once you pass this law that they can’t, I will not only allow them, but I will encourage them to do so, just to see what you do. “I don’t recognize your authority to impose these controls over me.” There you go: “I don’t recognize your authority.” That’s the masked-up mentality, as bluntly put as can be.
Police and ICE are right-wing paramilitaries. They don’t recognize anything left of White Christian Nationalism as legitimate legislative authority because their entire mission is service to the status quo. They protect entrenched power and wealth; it’s their entire purpose.
They are the enforcement arm of capital which rallies around White Christian Nationalism as its standard.