There are many regional terms for a submarine-shaped sandwich. One of them is ‘hero.’

On Monday, as President Trump ordered 800 National Guard troops to descend upon the streets of Washington, D.C., plenty of social media users were using that term—not to describe such a sandwich, but the man who wielded it.

A viral video taken in D.C. over the weekend shows a man in a jaunty pink button-up and north-of-the-knee white shorts confronting heavily armed federal officers. He appears at first bouncing in and out of a slight crouch, his head swaying from side to side, looking spectacularly undaunted by the agents all around him. It’s unclear what he is saying, though a longer video shows the man ranting about “fascism” moments before the confrontation, so it’s easy to imagine what he may have

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