I'm beginning to think the American experiment in democracy has, at long last, failed. How else to explain Maine Gov. Paul LePage?
“I tell ya, everybody in Maine, we have constitutional carry,” LePage said in an on-camera interview in Lewiston, referring to the state’s protections for carrying concealed handguns without a special permit.
“Load up and get rid of the drug dealers. Because, folks, they’re killing our kids,” the governor said. The reporter he was speaking with quickly asked if the head of the state government was calling for vigilante justice. LePage denied that he meant to invite vigilantism by saying Mainers can use concealed firearms to “get rid of” drug dealers when they find them.
This comes immediately after proposing that Maine execute drug dealers via guillotine, and is just the latest chapter of LePage's ongoing tirade against the aforementioned drug dealers who have been impregnating his state's "white girls."
Is LePage having some sort of episode? Is his brain properly braining? Or is this just the new American normal, once we've decided, Trump-style, that we've had just about enough of this functional governance crap?