You can feel fear, anxiety and anger emanating like rippling waves of South Carolina heat when people start talking about the state of America months after Donald Trump started his second presidential administration.

You feel it at a local demonstration in Brittlebank Park. You hear it in tense voices in quiet, casual conversations. You read about it in stories about attacks, such as just a few days ago after a man shot a flamethrower in Colorado at people marching to support hostages in Gaza.

And it’s front and center now after authorities arrested 80 people over the weekend in Ladson in an immigration raid.

The local Latino community is on high alert about Big Brother.

This atmosphere of anxiety so horrified a 22-year-old construction worker in Anderson County that he wrote a 25-page

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