History shows how a sudden national tragedy can transform a struggling leader into a wartime commander, and why that precedent should make Americans uneasy today.
Thom Hartmann
Madison and the Founders of his generation had it right: this is a naked crime by Trump and Hegseth against our Constitution and our laws and requires a strong congressional response such as impeachment.
This is the most corrupt administration in the history of America, with Trump following Putin’s formula for becoming wildly rich step-by-step. And somehow Fox “News” and the rightwing echo chamber never seem to report on any of it.
Freedom isn’t a slogan (although Republicans have abused it as one for decades): it’s found in the lived experience of average people.
From Hitler to Putin to Orbán and Trump, the first step is always the same: act illegally, dare anyone to stop you, and behave like losing in court is only a delay.
The dangers the Bill of Rights was written for aren’t the ones Americans usually watch for. But we are in danger of losing them.
Why does a lie that has never been proven, never worked, and never been real still hold the power to undermine an entire democracy?
The NFL proves that rules, referees, and “redistribution” are the only way any game, including the American economy, actually works.
Germany’s concentration camps didn’t start as instruments of mass murder, and neither have ours; both started as facilities for people the government’s leader said were a problem. And that’s exactly what ICE is building now.
Debt, ego, sexual compromise, and fear: why Trump’s behavior makes sense only when you realize he’s been in Putin's pocket for years.
Trump’s recalibration follows the same step-back, step-forward playbook used by Orbán, Putin, and every modern strongman.
Unless Democratic leadership takes a cue from the good people of Minnesota and steps up and fights back hard, the next message will be even broader and bloodier, because authoritarians always interpret silence as permission.
When future historians ask what Putin wanted from Trump, the answer may be painfully simple: “Everything America once stood for.”
This isn’t alarmism: it’s the historical pattern, repeated across dozens of countries and thousands of years.
How ICE moved from enforcing immigration law to deciding which people belong in America and which people do not.
Trump and the hard-right billionaires who made him president appear to be betting that things will work out for them as well as it did for Putin.
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