Tag: Trump Administration
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From Redcoats to ICE: The Return of the Internal Security State
For most of American history, Americans have imagined the threat to our liberty as something that originated from a foreign entity. An invading army, a hostile ideology, perhaps a distant tyrant like Adolph Hitler or Putin. But our founders feared something closer to home: a government that would turn its power inward, using surveillance, force,…
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Trump’s Plan for Venezuela Leads Straight to Occupation
It started how these things often do: an early morning post on Truth Social. Trump announced that Nicolás Maduro was gone, seized and flown out of Venezuela. The timing was pure theater, but what he said later that day was deadly serious. At a Saturday press conference, Trump declared that the United States would now…
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The GOP’s Calculated Betrayal of the American People
← Back to Democratic Backsliding & Authoritarian Drift Introduction: The Pyramid of Betrayal When I look at Donald Trump, I don’t see a leader. I see cruelty personified. I see a man who views empathy as weakness, compassion as inconvenience, and human suffering as irrelevant unless it serves his personal gain. He sits atop a…
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The Lawlessness of the Trump Administration
← Back to Democratic Backsliding & Authoritarian Drift Trump’s presidency has been marked by brazen defiance of constitutional norms, but this lawlessness didn’t begin in the Oval Office. It’s just the latest chapter in Trump’s long, well-documented history of manipulating the legal system to further personal power, punish critics and evade accountability. Trump and his…