"If we ever got to the point in which a president was sending the military into cities for purely political reasons, aggressive policing wouldn’t be our most urgent problem. Our most urgent problem would be authoritarianism.

And so here we are."

~ Radley Balko

#Trump#WashingtonDC #military #authoritarianism #fascism

#Trump #Biden #health #media #fascism
/9

https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/liberals-cannot-stop-authoritarianism

Sarah Jones, raised in a white evangelical household where James Dobson's books on child-rearing were prominently displayed and where her father followed Dobson's advice to beat her, opens her remembrance of Dobson by saying,

"About ten years ago, I created a Google alert so I’d know the moment James Dobson died."

#JamesDobson#Trump#Republicans #evangelicals #authoritarianism #patriarchy #homophobia
/1

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/james-dobson-was-my-horror-and-yours.html

Finally:

"There is arguably no path to Trump without Dobson, and it begins with the broadcaster’s commitment to violence and ideological rigidity."

#JamesDobson#Trump#Republicans #evangelicals #authoritarianism #patriarchy #homophobia
/4

"A childhood like mine is a personal tragedy with political dimensions. Dobson served tyranny all his life, and over time, he sought to enshrine it in the highest seats of power. To him and his heirs, the American home is a laboratory; they inflict suffering in private to better reproduce it in public."

#JamesDobson#Trump#Republicans #evangelicals #authoritarianism #patriarchy #homophobia
/3

Then:

"Dobson did not hit me; my father did. But Dobson told him that he was right to hit me, that God gave him permission. That if he hit me, I would obey my parents and the Lord, and that everything would be all right because to strike a child is to love her."

And:

"Now that Dobson is dead, it is easier to see the scope of his legacy."

#JamesDobson#Trump#Republicans #evangelicals #authoritarianism #patriarchy #homophobia
/2

Sarah Jones, raised in a white evangelical household where James Dobson's books on child-rearing were prominently displayed and where her father followed Dobson's advice to beat her, opens her remembrance of Dobson by saying,

"About ten years ago, I created a Google alert so I’d know the moment James Dobson died."

#JamesDobson#Trump#Republicans #evangelicals #authoritarianism #patriarchy #homophobia
/1

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/james-dobson-was-my-horror-and-yours.html

"Chief Justice John Roberts created the monster that is Trump 2.0 with the ludicrous criminal immunity decision in Trump v. US.

But John Roberts is also behind Trump's effort to undermine the independence of the Federal Reserve, as noted in an editorial by the NY Times on Tuesday .... John Roberts is now officially the worst Chief Justice in our nation’s history."

#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #dictator#SupremeCourt#JohnRoberts
/4

"Why is Donald Trump trying to break the will of the Federal Reserve? Because he wants to be able to set the nation’s interest rates according to his momentary political interests—a tectonic disruption of America’s financial system that could permanently destroy America’s reputation as an economic safe haven and cause immeasurable damage to the U.S. economy."

~ Andrew Egger

#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #dictator#FederalReserve#LisaCook
/8

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/all-the-presidents-butt-snorkelers-cabinet-meeting-sycophants-dictator

"The administration’s solution is not to fund violence prevention programs and local law enforcement—two methods proven to work—but instead to use the power of the government to terrorize communities.

There is a frantic feel to that effort, as if they feel they must convince Americans to fear crime more than they fear rising grocery prices or having to take their children past police checkpoints on their way to school."

#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #dictator #military#WashingtonDC
/12

Paul Krugman looks at Trump's decimation of renewable energy enterprises, electricity generated by wind and solar power"

“'The Crazy' is my personal term for the escalating barrage of destructive actions and statements coming from the madman-in-chief and his minions."

#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #dictator #ClimateChange #electricity#WindPower#SolarPower#RenewableEnergy
/15

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-crazy-comes-for-clean-energy

"In an orgy of 'flattery inflation,' President Trump’s Cabinet members tried to outdo themselves with over-the-top cultist praise for their leader while he preened, strutted, and projected for TV cameras for more than three excruciating hours Tuesday."

~ David Kurtz

#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #dictator
/16

https://morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/dc-grand-jury-declines-to-indict

Paul Krugman looks at Trump's decimation of renewable energy enterprises, electricity generated by wind and solar power"

“'The Crazy' is my personal term for the escalating barrage of destructive actions and statements coming from the madman-in-chief and his minions."

#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #dictator #ClimateChange #electricity#WindPower#SolarPower#RenewableEnergy
/15

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-crazy-comes-for-clean-energy

"Perhaps the most important thing to understand about Trump’s mobster state capitalism is that it isn’t about economic efficiency or stimulating growth, let alone a vision of how the economy works and what it should create. It’s about power, pure and simple. Trump is expanding his own personal power in every direction he can — over Congress, over universities, over civil society, and over American business."

#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #dictator #economy
/14

Paul Waldman discusses Trump's "mobster state capitalism":

"What distinguishes Trump’s version of state capitalism from what you might find in other places is its random character, with every decision driven by the whims of one erratic man."

#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #dictator #economy
/13

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-intel-mobster-state-capitalism-china

"The administration’s solution is not to fund violence prevention programs and local law enforcement—two methods proven to work—but instead to use the power of the government to terrorize communities.

There is a frantic feel to that effort, as if they feel they must convince Americans to fear crime more than they fear rising grocery prices or having to take their children past police checkpoints on their way to school."

#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #dictator #military#WashingtonDC
/12

“The line is that I'm a dictator, but I stop crime. So a lot of people say, ‘You know, if that's the case, I'd rather have a dictator.'

With Trump underwater on all his key issues and his job approval rating dismal, the administration appears to be trying to create support for Trump by insisting that the U.S. is mired in crime and he alone can solve the problem."

#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #dictator #military#WashingtonDC
/11

"Today, for the second time in as many days, President Donald J. Trump suggested that Americans want a dictator. In a meeting in the Cabinet Room that lasted more than three hours, during which he listened to the fulsome praise of his cabinet officers and kept his hands below the table, seemingly to hide the bad bruising on his right hand, Trump said:"

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #dictator #military#WashingtonDC
/10

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-26-2025

"The sight of soldiers on American streets—camouflage-clad, armed and patrolling the same avenues where tourists once lined up for food trucks—should never have become normal. Yet under Donald Trump’s leadership, Washington, DC was transformed from a civic capital into a stage set for authoritarian theater."

~ Mark Mansour

#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #dictator #military#WashingtonDC
/9

https://mmansour.substack.com/p/the-dangerous-normalization-of-trumps

"Why is Donald Trump trying to break the will of the Federal Reserve? Because he wants to be able to set the nation’s interest rates according to his momentary political interests—a tectonic disruption of America’s financial system that could permanently destroy America’s reputation as an economic safe haven and cause immeasurable damage to the U.S. economy."

~ Andrew Egger

#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #dictator#FederalReserve#LisaCook
/8

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/all-the-presidents-butt-snorkelers-cabinet-meeting-sycophants-dictator

Kate Riga notes that "the standoff the Supreme Court left the door open for is here" with Trump's determination to seize control of the Federal Reserve:

"The Court’s right-wing majority has been largely gleeful to cosign Trump’s rampage through the federal government, the weakening of executive branch agencies being a special hobbyhorse for Chief Justice John Roberts in particular."

#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #dictator#SupremeCourt#JohnRoberts
/7

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things-stand/the-standoff-the-supreme-court-left-the-door-open-for-is-here