ICYMI over the Easter break: I wrote about how, just three months after Trump took power, constitutional protections now come with a disclaimer: “Unless the regime decides otherwise.” - ThreadSky

thomaszimmer.bsky.social • 1 day ago

ICYMI over the Easter break:

I wrote about how, just three months after Trump took power, constitutional protections now come with a disclaimer:

“Unless the regime decides otherwise.”

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thomaszimmer.bsky.social•1 day ago

A chronicle of the past six weeks: Since early March, the Trumpist assault on the constitutional order has been most visible in the radicalizing attempt to purge the nation from foreigners the regime deems unwelcome - which is intimately tied to the attack on the “enemy within.”

thomaszimmer.bsky.social•1 day ago

In the MAGA imagination, America is simultaneously threatened by outsiders and by insidiously subversive forces on the inside. The “enemy within” – those Un-American forces of radical leftism and “globalist” elites – are as acutely dangerous as the invaders from without.

thomaszimmer.bsky.social•1 day ago

The MAGA rage won’t be confined to foreigners. A regime that so aggressively curtails and ignores fundamental rights for one group today will not hesitate to violate and suspend them for others tomorrow. It’s never far from “illegal aliens” and “alien enemies” to “the enemy within.”

thomaszimmer.bsky.social•1 day ago

Where will this end? We cannot predict the contours of America’s political system or societal order five or ten years from now. In a stable democracy, the range of plausible outcomes should be narrow. But for America, it now includes complete democratic breakdown and full-blown despotic rule.

wndlb.bsky.social•1 day ago

Under King Donald the Second!

originalsunshine.bsky.social•1 day ago

I think it may potentially end in war.

mikereigns.bsky.social•1 day ago

The authoritarian hard right gov in the US & others around the world are intent on destabilising systems & societal structures with the aim of resetting to their preference. But in any system increased instability means more unexpected/unpredictable outcomes. War is certainly a strong possibility.

mikereigns.bsky.social•1 day ago

We are well used to that kind of rhetoric in the U.K. it’s routinely aimed at the left. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/oct/03/thatcher-labour-miners-enemy-within-brighton-bomb

mariatortilla.bsky.social•1 day ago

Well written, Mr. Zimmer, 100% accurate and i 100% agree.

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