cross-posted from: https://ibbit.at/post/91485
Just over nine months after President Donald Trump returned to office and pardoned his supporters who stormed the US Capitol, one of the Republican’s top aides suggested that federal law enforcement may arrest Democrats standing up to the White House’s anti-migrant agenda, including Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker. Asked about the administration’s willingness and federal authority to arrest the…
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This shit is getting out of control. I don’t think people understand how close we are to a full dictatorship. Some would say we are already there, but there is still time. Once a dictatorship is installed, the only way from it is assassination…. It’s also a great preventer… just saying.
Oh, some of us know. And some of us are sick of the edging.
We’re going there, inexorably. They’re trying to pretend that’s not what’s happening, and loads of people are happy to go along with it out of… denial? Blissful ignorance?
But some of us just wish they’d drop the fragments of their mask, already, so we can stop debating where we are in the 14 steps and just fucking deal with the problem.
And assassination usually just results in the next most ruthless psycho becoming dictator. The only real way out is a mass movement, which the dictatorship will do everything it can to make almost impossible.
If Trump gets taken out we will see Steven Miller enjoy even more power than he already does.
Yes, getting rid of him should be a top priority.
This is why at every protest I talk to folks shaking my head that 90% of the populace is not out here. None of this is ok.