Letter: A moral atrocity, lies and a power grab

Letter: A moral atrocity, lies and a power grab

The MAGA regime is imprisoning people without charge, trial, or sentence. Trump and his functionaries claim to be deporting violent criminals despite knowing full well that the overwhelming majority of these people have no criminal records, have not been charged…

America is officially a dictatorship

Congratulations, Republicans and others who voted for Trump. We now officially live under a dictator. Trump kidnapped people off our streets, with no due process (just take Trump’s word that they’re bad guys!), and shipped them to a foreign dungeon. And now, he has openly defied the Supreme Court on live TV by declaring that […]

Dems Must Make GOP Fear Consequences of Trying Dictatorship

A serious threat of prosecution must hang over those who break the law in the second Trump administration.

Democrats Need to Make Republicans Fear the Consequences of Attempting a Dictatorship

Imagine that you were a high-ranking official in Donald Trump’s administration. Imagine that you believed in the Dark Enlightenment dream of dismantling liberal democracy itself—of “killing the woke mind virus,” ending birthright citizenship, and using federal power to suppress dissent. Now imagine you’re openly defying the Supreme Court, declaring that protest aids and abets terrorism, directing the FBI and IRS to target political enemies, and …

TRYING TO SEE: FIGHTING TRUMP’S GROWING DICTATORSHIP

By Michael Randall Donald Trump was elected to his second term as president by over 77,000,000 voters. He is their president but no one else’s. About 75,000,000 voted for Kamala Harris, while 89,000,000 of the “voting-eligible” population (not specifically registered voters) did not vote at all. That’s a testimony to the dangerous lack of interest in either candidate, and the poor work of both major political parties. We are now three months int…

As the historian of the United States Arnaldo Testi wrote in his blog, the Reaganian era inaugurated that neoliberal political culture that will be revived in a light version from the “News Democrats” to Bill Clinton: less state and more market, deregulation of the economy, reduced welfare state, but also new individual rights (Short Cuts America, 17 April 2025). The democratic coalition that awarded the victory to Barack Obama - made up of a pr…