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Projection as Deflection: The Real Danger Behind Trump’s Betrayal Language
Weaponizing the Word ‘Traitor’ Donald Trump’s traitor rhetoric isn’t just verbal aggression—it’s a strategic deflection. From generals and journalists to presidents and protestors, he’s turned accusations of betrayal into political weapons, repurposing patriotism as a loyalty test. But when we examine the record, from inciting insurrection to mishandling classified intelligence, another picture emerges: one of…
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The Myth of the Lone Strongman
Tyranny rarely announces itself. It emerges when institutions defer and constraints quietly dissolve. As Ruth Ben-Ghiat notes in Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present, autocrats like Mussolini and Orbán didn’t act alone. They relied on courts, legislatures, and bureaucracies repurposed by enablers of authoritarianism. Modern strongmen gut democracy from within. Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way call…
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The House Next Door — Echoes Across America
Part 6: The Kids Who Stayed Behind After the knock, after the silence – what happens to the children still expected to pledge allegiance, solve for x and turn in their homework? Stillness After the Storm The shoes are still there. Mine and hers.One is leaning against the wall, its heel flattened from mornings in…
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The House Next Door — Echoes Across America
Part 2 – When They Were Taken The shriek of tires. The clash of doors. The sound of lives shattering. It doesn’t always happen in the shadows. Sometimes it happens at school pickup. On the way home from work. While children draw sidewalk chalk hearts in the driveway. That’s how it happened in Postville, Iowa.…
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Trump: An Immigration Strategy of Cruelty
You know, when we talk about immigration, we have to be honest about what’s happening. Under Trump, the U.S. hasn’t just enforced immigration laws. It has deliberately made the process cruel. And that cruelty isn’t an accident; it’s the very method of enforcement. Policies have been designed not just to control immigration, but to make…