Are the Trumpers setting a trap ahead of Saturday’s ‘No Kings’ rallies?

The continued hype from high-ranking MAGA Republicans for Saturday’s “No Kings” protests makes it clear: that they want millions of Americans to attend a local rally.

Be careful, is my advice, because they could be setting a trap.

“The Democrat Party’s main constituency are made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens and violent criminals. That is who the Democrat Party is catering to,” White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt told Fox News on Thursday, which isn’t even borderline violence-baiting.

Let this statement sink in.

The official word of the Trump White House is: if you’re for the other side, you’re either a terrorist, in the country illegally, or a criminal.

Wow, just, wow.

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No Kings’: Saturday, Oct. 18 local events

• Staunton: Augusta County Courthouse, 12:30-2 p.m.
• Charlottesville: The Shops at Stonefield, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
• Harrisonburg: Sign up for more details, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
• Shenandoah County: 443 W. Reservoir Road, Woodstock, 10 am. to noon
• Culpeper: Sign up for more details, 10 a.m. to noon
• Lynchburg: Miller Park, 2-4 p.m.
• Roanoke: Corner of Orange and Burrell, noon to 1 p.m.

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Trump communications director Stephen Cheung doubled down on that message in a press release on the MAGA government shutdown, which Cheung – a former spokesperson for UFC – blamed on “Radical Left lunatics” and “unhinged Democrats.”

These aren’t just fighting words: it’s hard to read them and not think the White House doesn’t want its hardcore supporters to mete out some frontier justice.

Saturday’s “No Kings” rallies would seem to be a welcome opportunity for neo-Nazis with jacked-up trucks to plow through a crowd, to cite one thing that could happen.

I’m also reading speculation online about the use of paid agents posing as anti-Trumpers using the rallies to attack local police and buildings to create a pretext for federal crackdowns.

My advice: go to a local rally, keep your head on a swivel, help rally organizers and your local police root out the paid agitators, and in the process, send a message to the fascists:

We’re not going to let the oligarchs and their paid thugs run roughshod over 250 years of our nation’s history.