Deploying troops without police training, defying the courts, and threatening the media, Trump is importing dictator tactics in plain sight and daring Americans to stop him.
History is filled with politicians who believed they were untouchable. But the pattern always cracks. Always. The lie gets too big. The system bends just far enough. The coverup fails.
A 15% tariff on EU-branded drugs will make medicine more expensive, sick people sicker, and Big Pharma richer. Trump, doing this illegally, calls that “winning.”
We have to stop pretending this is normal. It’s sure as hell not normal for the Fourth Estate to become a wholly-owned subsidiary of the neofascist MAGA movement.
Trump’s assault on the press is not a sideshow. It is not a distraction. It is the whole game. Control the narrative, and you control the country. Silence dissent, and you can do anything.
The Republican Party has become a collection of stone-cold killers, who have never seen a single life worth saving just as long as there is enough money involved to allow them to cock their fat heads and look the other way.
If you think Trump's illegal use of the military ends with L.A., you haven’t been paying attention. This is Portland 2.0—but scaled up, and aimed at the soul of American democracy.