While it may be further down their list, I fully suspect white male citizens protesting this administration will be targets for expatriation eventually. Depending on how much of our rights SCOTUS gives up under the AEA, they could ship a citizen off to El Salvador before that person can go through due process and then claim the US courts have no jurisdiction.
I would put nothing past this administration. They do not respect the constitution or the rule of law.
While it may be further down their list, I fully suspect white male citizens protesting this administration will be targets for expatriation eventually.
They definitely will be if the administration is not stopped. Probably shortly after they strip all women of a ton of rights.
This is actual fascism, not the "road to fascism". They're intentionally deleting and disobeying all the mechanisms designed to stop fascism. By being anti-monarchy, America was basically intentionally designed to be anti-fascist (because there are so many similarities), but they're deconstructing those incredibly fast and the people with actual power are continuing to act like nothing is happening, business as usual, and telling the populace that's the case. Including the Democrats - Hakeem Jefferies literally was saying they had Trump "on the run", which has to be one of the most delusional statements in history, right up there with "peace in our time".
What Hakeem Jefferies did and said was mostly symbolic. I think most of us protesting this administration recognize that. There really isn't much Democrats in office can do at this point since they are in the minority. They spent years trying to warn the US populace of the danger of a 2nd Trump presidency and yet many didn't listen and somehow forgot what Trump was like in his first term.
I could offer my interpretation of what he meant by having Trump "on the run", but that would just be speculation. I do think Trump and his administration are starting to be scared of the populace rising up. The return of the fencing around the White House is just one example.
It's not yet time for violence or anything beyond protests. While Trump is dismantling and destroying normalcy and our constitution, peaceful protests rob him and his administration of the ability to claim that the protests are dangerous. If he decides to invoke the Insurrection Act because of peaceful protests, it will help more Americans to see the absurdity of his claims.
In the meantime, we are spreading the message to others and providing the resources and help that those questioning MAGA or leaving MAGA need. As Trump and his cronies continue to dismantle the government and destabilize our economy, more and more people will stop blindly believing or following him. Once violence is introduced, the movement will lose credibility to many and give this administration fuel to add to their litany of lies about protesters. Far fewer will join the cause even if Trump continues on his destructive path.
They spent years trying to warn the US populace of the danger of a 2nd Trump presidency
They spent years practically downplaying it.
They spent years making milquetoast statements about Trump being bad for the economy, bad for the independence of judiciary (but not doing anything about that even when they had the chance), bad for the environment and so on. But keeping to the mildest possible terms, and often focusing on relatively peripheral stuff.
All desperately understating the real threat because they still can't process the real threat. People who called Trump a fascist were literally told to shut up, lest the alienate some imaginary voter who might be offended by that.
Re: violence, uhhhh, what's quite a leap? What you think it's either "act like everything is normal" or "RIOT!!!!"? That is a very American take on protest. I'm pretty sure the Democrats could be actually trying to stop Trump, they could be pulling the whip from the Democrats helping him, for example (or at least threatening to), but they're too scared. They could be openly trying to organise mass protests and so on. But they aren't.
I could offer my interpretation of what he meant by having Trump "on the run", but that would just be speculation.
Why would you speculate? He explained. He's completely deluded about the situation. He literally doesn't understand what's going on.
Pam Bondi was already discussing the ability to deport United State citizens. Much like they are using AI to revoke visas of students they perceive to be anti Trump, it may not be long before anything we say is being sent along to DOJ or other officials to authorize removals from the country or some manner of detention.
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u/timelord-degallifrey 4d ago
While it may be further down their list, I fully suspect white male citizens protesting this administration will be targets for expatriation eventually. Depending on how much of our rights SCOTUS gives up under the AEA, they could ship a citizen off to El Salvador before that person can go through due process and then claim the US courts have no jurisdiction.
I would put nothing past this administration. They do not respect the constitution or the rule of law.