The Trump regime is starting to have a chilling effect on the four pillars of civil society — universities, science, the media, and the law.
The chill is the point. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-big-chill
The chill is the point. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-big-chill
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I've also had a sense of dread.
Recently a nominated president was thrown aside and replaced with a candidate that won zero primaries.
I also learned the prior administration instituted policies with no laws or mandate (DEI).
republicans have been attacking the same for decades
Like a bunch of cranky nap-deprived toddlers got into the control room!
They had the dreamy opportunity to say fuck you in an official capacity. See why people think we’re weak.
Man, if people were upset at the price of eggs…just wait for the coming sh*t show tariffs will bring.
What will the maga crowd say then?
..It's not an individual defect but a social force,
not a lack of intelligence but a lack of moral courage."
The theory of stupidity by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
https://time.com/7269166/dark-enlightenment-history-essay/
SERIOUSLY?
Republicans have been fighting to make the USA Fascist for DECADES. Ever since Newt Gingrich thought it would be cool to use only the language of demonization against opponents.
It's finally working for them.
If anyone sees a way out of this I'm ears, but this is hitler fascism. Did the Jewish people's anguishing cries to stop stop the fascist? No! Did the socialists who begged for their cries stop him? No!~
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/europe-trump-science-research.html
WE all need to be FIGHTING, he is planning to maybe, in the future, write a sternly worded e-mail
Wrong MAN for the JOB!!
Every SINGLE day #schumer “leads” is a day tRump AND Musk WIN - against US!!
I think we know where this is all headed, the question is what do we do about it? The old way would take too long, the new way would require big consequences. What is the answer?
Even trump's lawlessness will not stand up to the combined might of the American People when they have had enough!
King George would tell him that if he were around!