I think this is the ultimate red line that the US crossed from a democracy to a fascist authoritarian country. Here are my points:
- Trump is a known criminal who encouraged a terrorist attack against the government and government officials. The fact that he was not only free of punishment but also legible for running as president shows that the democracy was already extremely vulnerable to a hostile takeover.
- Trump before that has repeatedly tried to convince the public that the election he lost was rigged, this is a blatant attempt to hurt the government and derail the people twoards an insurrection. At the very least he should have been investigated for conspiracy against the government (If he was muslim he would have been fucking assassinated as a terrorist already)
- The insertion of an unelected and unqualified person into the government and letting him run around and fuck with confidential and extremely sensitive systems and data (Elon) is something that should have been stopped way before he was able to start gutting public services.
- Trump did a pump and dump on NFTs, meme coins, and most recently the literal US economy. He is not even investigated for securitys fraud.
And now the really really bad things:
- Deported legal residents without due process and with secret “evidence” that no one is willing to share past “terrorism and national security”
- Ignored the supreme court and deported innocent people to a literal concentration camp. This is the 101 of a democracy being shattered, the authority ignoring the law and the police (ICE in this case) listening to the authority and not the law.
- Has now publicly and shamelessly announced that legal, US born citizens are next. This is past illegal, this unconstitutional and is the very thing the founders of the USA had in mind when writing the constitution.
And all of this without mentioning Trump as a private person being a convicted felon, rapist and a failure of a businessman to a degree that any sane person wouldn’t let him run a fucking easy-bake oven bakery.
So, am I crazy or did we just witness the actual moment that historians would label as the fall of the US democracy?
I feel so incredibly sad and exhausted at what has happened to my country. The US has had its flaws, sure. I was born in the late 90s and just within my own lifetime everything I grew up with has been ripped to pieces as an adult over and over again.
It’s some sort of sick joke.
I no longer have any hope for the future and am just bracing for impact at this point with what little I have.
The fact that he can make these statements and there still are people ignoring or defending him is just so incredibly gross and further proves how f’ed we are.
Basically at this point I don’t think there’s any comfortable way out of this, it’s going to be a very painful and costly road ahead for us and I don’t know if I really believe in this country anymore. If we actually make it to a real election in 4 years I’ll eat my words, but seeing how this is just starting I would say its extremely unlikely.
Trump seems content on driving us off a cliff
Second Amendment people, where are you huh?
Turns out, most are fascists.
That’s why anyone not in the cult needs to start purchasing and training with firearms.