#GiftArticle by Jamelle Bouie
Toward the end of his tenure, Gen #MarkMilley, …chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff 2019–2023, told #BobWoodward of WaPo that Donald #Trump was a fundamental threat to the safety & integrity of the #UnitedStates.
“No one has ever been as dangerous to this country as Donald Trump,” the general told Woodward. “Now I realize he’s a total fascist. He is the most dangerous person to this country.”
Let’s stop for a second.
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in reply to Nonilex • • •More important than the novelty of Milley’s statement is the reality that he’s right.
News of the general’s 2023 assessment broke last Friday. That afternoon, & as if to prove the point, #Trump dove even deeper into the rhetorical abyss, telling his followers that he would deploy an 18th-century #law to “liberate” the country from #immigrants once & for all. “I make you this vow: November 5th, 2024 will be LIBERATION DAY in America,” Trump wrote on X.
#democracy #USpol
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in reply to Nonilex • • •“I will rescue Aurora & every town that has been invaded & conquered—& we will put these vicious & bloodthirsty criminals in jail or kick them the hell OUT OF OUR COUNTRY.” And “to expedite removals of this savage gang,” #Trump continued, “I will invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to target & dismantle every migrant criminal network operating on American Soil.”
#authoritarianism #tyranny #autocracy #democracy #USpol
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in reply to Nonilex • • •To be clear, the Alien Enemies Act—one of the infamous Alien & Sedition Acts signed by President John Adams—does not distinguish between “legal” & “illegal” #immigrants & foreign nationals, a distinction that did not exist at the time of passage. This means that any immigrant deemed an “enemy alien” by the #Trump admin could be subject to arrest & removal by the federal government.
#authoritarianism #tyranny #kleptocracy #autocracy #democracy #USpol
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in reply to Nonilex • • •“I always say, we have two enemies,” #Trump said, adding: “We have the outside enemy, & then we have the enemy from within, & the enemy from within, in my opinion, is more dangerous than China, Russia & all these countries.”
There is both a temptation & a tendency to dismiss all of this as just tough talk, the empty promises of one of the most dishonest men to ever sit in the Oval Office.
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