It took Hitler 53 days to use democratic procedures to turn Germany into a Nazi autocracy.
Apparently Trump and his allies saw beating that timeline as a challenge.
#TrumpReich
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/01/28/congress/schumer-murray-funding-freeze-00200955
Apparently Trump and his allies saw beating that timeline as a challenge.
#TrumpReich
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/01/28/congress/schumer-murray-funding-freeze-00200955
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"The purges extended beyond the Party elite, reaching down into every local Party cell and nearly all of the intellectual professions, anyone with a higher education was suspected of being a potential counterrevolutionary. This left Stalin as the sole force in the country"
And with coaching from Putin
Congress could use fewer spineless speeches and more gutsy decisions.. they need to fight back. Our life depends on it.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/01/hitler-germany-constitution-authoritarianism/681233/
Since there is currently no functioning federal government, the states are going to have to unite to do it themselves.
The article, along with added extra links, is in this Bluesky thread.
Tap above the 'article pic' and scroll ⏬
I am sure lawsuits will follow.
Without a majority in either chamber, they is little they can “do” beyond that.
Always open to suggestions, though.
Denies having read Mein Kampf - but is he just playing around the edges of establishing a border of US military personnel on all borders. Can we realize potential for Marshall Law is on his horizon?
In courts.
In the media.
In elections.
We resist for as long as we can.