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For what surely will be the only time this year at Citi Field, a Juan Soto strikeout was met with cheers. Another long bottom of the inning had mercifully ended, this one entailing the Mets scoring seven runs. Finally, the 42,112 on hand could be done with the overwhelming and over-boring Mets offense and could watch Jonah Tong pitch again. …

Fascism, like bankruptcy, happens in two ways.  Gradually, then, suddenly. What feels like a steady drip of horrifying state actions against minorities at once blows up into days of street fighting in the nation’s second-largest city. A monotonous drumbeat of racist rhetoric becomes the law of the land as the protections of citizenship are stripped from outgroups and dissidents alike. …