The risk of a terrible sense of impunity

One of the things that worries and upsets me the most about the current political situation and new government is not only the awful, backward, discriminatory laws, which are terrible and horrible in & as of themselves. It’s also the sense of impunity and license that the government’s laws, words, attitudes will give — and maybe are already giving — to mean, hateful, close-minded people to act out and harm people like me, harm and/or attack whoever is “different”.