Donald Trump’s talk of punishing his critics and seeking to“weaponize” the US justice department against his political opponents has experts and former DoJ officials warning he poses a direct threat to the rule of law and democracy in the US. Trump’s talk of seeking “retribution” against foes, including some he’s branded “vermin”, has coincided with plans that Maga loyalists at rightwing thinktanks are assembling to expand the president’s power and curb the DoJ, the FBI and other federal agencies. All of it has fueled critics’ fears that in a second term Trump would govern as an unprecedentedly authoritarian American leader.
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Will history repeat itself?
In the 1960’s, my father had told me that he had some kind of pamphlets or something stored in the attic of the garage. There, I found articles about Huey Long. A Progressive in politics in the 1920’s and 30’s, who was assassinated. The late 1940’s and 50’s were very conservative times. McCarthyism and the ‘red scare’. It was something felt, even if not involved directly.
Hence, Fear and hidden stuff, even into the 1960's.
Republicans already declared ‘war’ on books they find offensive.
We all may find ourselves hiding ‘stuff’ in future...
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