The Supreme Court did, eventually, tell him he can’t just send the military in to brutalize people whenever he wants. But they also signaled that if there was an actual insurrection they would allow it. So I think there is something to this logic.
But it still leaves the question of how to stop fascism more generally open. I am thinking an organized, mass economic disruption is the only realistic option but that will be very difficult for people who are just getting buy. Certainly we should all cut our spending to a bare minimum. If we can pool our resources to provide strike funds that would also help but it might be tough to get that much buy in.
Their response to having access to the military cut off was to simply militarize ICE into a paramilitary group with powers that are more broad than even the military would get for such enforcement. With the advantage that ICE can be staffed entirely with fascist friendly true believers while the military is mostly staffed with just regular humans.
If they deployed the military as police enforcers it would instantly become the most ethnically diverse and lowest paid police organization in the country. They have to have considered that.
The Supreme Court did, eventually, tell him he can’t just send the military in to brutalize people whenever he wants. But they also signaled that if there was an actual insurrection they would allow it. So I think there is something to this logic.
But it still leaves the question of how to stop fascism more generally open. I am thinking an organized, mass economic disruption is the only realistic option but that will be very difficult for people who are just getting buy. Certainly we should all cut our spending to a bare minimum. If we can pool our resources to provide strike funds that would also help but it might be tough to get that much buy in.
Their response to having access to the military cut off was to simply militarize ICE into a paramilitary group with powers that are more broad than even the military would get for such enforcement. With the advantage that ICE can be staffed entirely with fascist friendly true believers while the military is mostly staffed with just regular humans.
If they deployed the military as police enforcers it would instantly become the most ethnically diverse and lowest paid police organization in the country. They have to have considered that.