"There is no emergency in Chicago that calls for armed military intervention. ...
Donald Trump wants to use the military to occupy a U.S. city, punish his dissidents, and score political points. If this were happening in any other country, we would have no trouble calling it what it is: a dangerous power grab.”
"They would rather send the military against Americans than stand with Ukraine against Putin. They would rather attack disabled people and marginalized communities than confront real problems facing Americans that require difficult solutions. When you go on offense against Trump and MAGA, they quickly play the role of victim and show what sociopaths they are."
~ Ben Meiselas
"The single word I’d most like to retire from the vocabulary of journalists covering fascism’s quickening consolidation of power is 'unprecedented.' The United States in 1925 isn’t Germany in 1933; our moment, like all moments, is its own. And yet we hear the echoes. The precedents."
~ Jeff Sharlet
https://slowcivilwar.substack.com/p/babel-kafka-and-kilmar-abrego-garcia
"It’s time for 'We the people…' to talk about this fascist tyranny, and then get rid of it.
This is our moral and patriotic duty to one another, our national heritage, and to our posterity."
~ Wendell Griffen
https://wendellgriffen.substack.com/p/this-is-what-we-should-be-doing-now
"He is de-professionalizing the US military and federal law enforcement and federal emergency response. while he is turning those kinds of forces against the american people on american soil. And and why would you do that? ...
The reason a leader would do something like that is because that leader wants to use those forces differently than what they've been trained for, differently than what they've been used for before.
~ Rachel Maddow
"A leader trying to professionalize the sharp end of the spear, de-professionalizing law enforcement and the military, does so because he wants to remove any professional restraint or internal ethics or culture that might otherwis hold those forces back from what he is now going to ask them to do."
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