"Whether persecuting Abrego Garcia, threatening Fed independence, or shredding the constitutional division between military forces and civilian law enforcement, Trump has signaled there are no limits (and scant consideration) to his dictatorial ambitions."
~ Jennifer Rubin
#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #dictator#KilmarAbregoGarcia #military#WashingtonDC#LisaCook
/1
"'I have the right to do anything I wanna do. I’m the President of the United States.'
That statement is not a joke. … Trump's statement is a sign of megalomania and malignant narcissism, but it is also an accurate statement of his governing philosophy. He really believes he can do anything he wants, which is the opposite of the oath of office he took in January 2025."
~ Robert B. Hubbell
#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #dictator
/3
https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/todays-edition-newsletter-readers
"Chief Justice John Roberts created the monster that is Trump 2.0 with the ludicrous criminal immunity decision in Trump v. US.
But John Roberts is also behind Trump's effort to undermine the independence of the Federal Reserve, as noted in an editorial by the NY Times on Tuesday .... John Roberts is now officially the worst Chief Justice in our nation’s history."
#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #dictator#SupremeCourt#JohnRoberts
/4
Let that sink in...
"John Roberts is now officially the worst Chief Justice in our nation’s history."
At the moment in history when we need the Supreme Court the most.
"The problem is, is that Republicans have a backstop. That backstop is the Supreme Court. That Supreme Court currently has six individuals who are, I'm going to use the word, have been groomed for years by the Federalist Society, by these billions of dollars from right-wing donors, by people like Leonard Leo, the good soldiers who were then handpicked by Donald Trump."
~ Wajhat Ali
#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #dictator#SupremeCourt#JohnRoberts
/5
https://joycevance.substack.com/p/trump-is-trying-to-fire-lisa-cook
"And these are the six of the nine who went even further beyond than what I thought they would do in the United States versus Trump last year."
#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #dictator#SupremeCourt#JohnRoberts#LeonardLeo#FederalistSociety
/6
Kate Riga notes that "the standoff the Supreme Court left the door open for is here" with Trump's determination to seize control of the Federal Reserve:
"The Court’s right-wing majority has been largely gleeful to cosign Trump’s rampage through the federal government, the weakening of executive branch agencies being a special hobbyhorse for Chief Justice John Roberts in particular."
#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #dictator #SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts
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"Why is Donald Trump trying to break the will of the Federal Reserve? Because he wants to be able to set the nation’s interest rates according to his momentary political interests—a tectonic disruption of America’s financial system that could permanently destroy America’s reputation as an economic safe haven and cause immeasurable damage to the U.S. economy."
~ Andrew Egger
#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #dictator#FederalReserve#LisaCook
/8
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/all-the-presidents-butt-snorkelers-cabinet-meeting-sycophants-dictator
"The sight of soldiers on American streets—camouflage-clad, armed and patrolling the same avenues where tourists once lined up for food trucks—should never have become normal. Yet under Donald Trump’s leadership, Washington, DC was transformed from a civic capital into a stage set for authoritarian theater."
~ Mark Mansour
#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #dictator #military#WashingtonDC
/9
https://mmansour.substack.com/p/the-dangerous-normalization-of-trumps
"Today, for the second time in as many days, President Donald J. Trump suggested that Americans want a dictator. In a meeting in the Cabinet Room that lasted more than three hours, during which he listened to the fulsome praise of his cabinet officers and kept his hands below the table, seemingly to hide the bad bruising on his right hand, Trump said:"
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #dictator #military#WashingtonDC
/10
“The line is that I'm a dictator, but I stop crime. So a lot of people say, ‘You know, if that's the case, I'd rather have a dictator.'
With Trump underwater on all his key issues and his job approval rating dismal, the administration appears to be trying to create support for Trump by insisting that the U.S. is mired in crime and he alone can solve the problem."
#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #dictator #military #WashingtonDC
/11
@wdlindsy@toad.social "I am a dictator but i stop crime" - Hitler said that. And Mussolini. And Franco. And Stalin. And Lenin. And Mao. And Xi. And Boisonaro. And Kim. Actually there was never a dictator who said "i promote crime".
"The administration’s solution is not to fund violence prevention programs and local law enforcement—two methods proven to work—but instead to use the power of the government to terrorize communities.
There is a frantic feel to that effort, as if they feel they must convince Americans to fear crime more than they fear rising grocery prices or having to take their children past police checkpoints on their way to school."
#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #dictator #military#WashingtonDC
/12
Paul Waldman discusses Trump's "mobster state capitalism":
"What distinguishes Trump’s version of state capitalism from what you might find in other places is its random character, with every decision driven by the whims of one erratic man."
#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #dictator #economy
/13
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-intel-mobster-state-capitalism-china
"Perhaps the most important thing to understand about Trump’s mobster state capitalism is that it isn’t about economic efficiency or stimulating growth, let alone a vision of how the economy works and what it should create. It’s about power, pure and simple. Trump is expanding his own personal power in every direction he can — over Congress, over universities, over civil society, and over American business."
Paul Krugman looks at Trump's decimation of renewable energy enterprises, electricity generated by wind and solar power"
“'The Crazy' is my personal term for the escalating barrage of destructive actions and statements coming from the madman-in-chief and his minions."
#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #dictator #ClimateChange #electricity#WindPower#SolarPower#RenewableEnergy
/15
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-crazy-comes-for-clean-energy
"In an orgy of 'flattery inflation,' President Trump’s Cabinet members tried to outdo themselves with over-the-top cultist praise for their leader while he preened, strutted, and projected for TV cameras for more than three excruciating hours Tuesday."
~ David Kurtz
#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #dictator
/16
https://morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/dc-grand-jury-declines-to-indict
Sounds like the old Stalin meeting, where the delegate dare not be the first to stop clapping and sit down.
“'It bore similarities … to meetings of ministers in other countries where leaders have sought to exert strong, personal control over large stretches of national life,' the WaPo reported.
For his part, Trump basked in the preposterous praise and further embraced the Roberts Court’s view of the unitary executive."
Re: WaPo's report, read: "other countries" with dictators at their helms….
#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #dictator #JohnRoberts #SupremeCourt
/17
"The deployment of a Marine infantry division that served in Iraq and Afghanistan in Los Angeles, the sight of military vehicles and armed National Guard troops in Washington D.C., and Trump’s threats to give the same treatment to Chicago and other Democrat-led cities, have borne out my June forecast that Trump is gearing up to pursue a 'forever war' on Americans."
~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat
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