By Michael Woyton
Welcome to the United States of Fascism.
No longer are we on the doorstep of an authoritarian administration.
A dictatorial convicted felon has come in the door, sat himself down on the couch and assumed that he is the unquestioned ruler. Where’s the Diet Coke?
Thanks, John Roberts and the Supremes.
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Is this really what you wanted, John Roberts: a country where anything you justices say can be ignored by the adjudicated rapist because it doesn’t comport with his — or Project 2025’s — vision of America?
When you decided back in July that presidents have absolute immunity for any official acts, did that include being able to pick and choose rulings with which to agree?
Well, this is what you allowed to happen.
We now have someone in the White House who believes he can, with the stroke of pen, take over universities and allow 20-something techies to run roughshod throughout the government firing people and shutting down services — even if those services were created by an act of Congress.
We now have someone in the White House who ordered the Justice Department to investigate ActBlue, the leading campaign money-raising platform for Democrats. Doesn’t that sound like something a dictator might do?
That same dictator wannabe is allowing members of the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement to enter anyone’s home without a search warrant to look for migrants. Is that something you wouldn’t mind if they happened to knock on your door?
ICE is also picking up and illegally sending U.S. citizens out of the country, including a 2-year-old girl who was snatched up along with her mother, who has legal custody.
Note that I didn’t say “deported.” A U.S. citizen cannot be deported. If the U.S. insists on sending a citizen out of this country that is not legal.
And now we have someone in the White House who just had a judge arrested.
On Friday, the FBI arrested Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan, accusing her of helping a man evade immigration authorities, the Associated Press said.
Hopefully, time with help clarify the real facts surrounding the judge’s actions — there is evidence that she sent the man into a public hallway where agents were stationed but they chose not to act, perhaps wanting to set up a more actionable situation.
But this administration, with sycophants like Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel, is sensationalizing the events, which only serve to put other judges on notice that they, too, might be arrested if they don’t play along.
And when for the love of all things holy did “due process” — something that is so important it appears in two separate Constitutional amendments — become optional?
For chrissake, any elected official who has said that due process doesn’t apply to everyone, the next time you get arrested for DWI, wire fraud, child abuse, whatever, the first words out of your mouth to law enforcement damn well better be “I give up my right to due process.” And see how you like it.
It has been pointed out that it’s been a pretty bad week for President Donald J. Felon. The poor dear has had to back track on a number of things, like firing the Fed chair, some tariffs, helping Elon pack his bags, Harvard, women’s health study funding, not to mention judge after judge ruling against his executive orders.
The recent New York Times/Siena College poll shows the grifter-in-chief to be underwater on his job approval, immigration, the economy, trade, the war between Russia and Ukraine, Kilmar Abrego Garcia and more.
A wild animal that is cornered doesn’t just give up, roll over and show its belly. It lashes out.
The golfer-in-chief is not above trying to make things worse to get the public to put up with more dictatorial hijinks.
We need to keep showing up and fighting back. We also need Democrats in Congress grow a spine and refuse to do anything to help with the MAGAGop agenda.
Say “No” to fascism.
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