And I'm starting to believe there is no way to step back from the brink.
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White supremacists have been lying in wait for this moment since Brown v. BOE.
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Browse 4Chan for a day and you will find the idea is popular and widespread. Go there and look and tell me I'm wrong.
Listen to what they are saying in South Carolina and tell me I'm wrong.
Scroll the M A G A tweets and tell me I'm wrong.
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Take a look back at this short thread I wrote on November 13 2016:
Martial Law.
Look it up.
A sitting President can call it for any number of reasons.
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And it's happened in miniature here several times in the past. It's what ultimately led to the Japanese internment camps.
Which is why I was so shaken after learning of the Navy plans to construct makeshift tent cities.
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Martial Law will lead to the dissolution of the Legislature and a complete suspension of Habeas Corpus.
No more courts, Supreme or otherwise.
Think about that.
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Again, think about that.
This is all perfectly possible and entirely legal.
This is not done badly written suspense novel.
This is America in 2018 and it really could happen.
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Do you believe Trump has ever acted w/ anything other than a reckless level of self-confidence and a fundamental disregard for the role of law?
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Do you believe that his coconspirators would not aid him in his pursuit to avoid prosecution?
Has everything he's done not make this feel like the logical conclusion to his madness?
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Donald Trump is a sociopath who has studied and admired Adolph Hitler for decades.
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Insane, radical ideas.
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They believe this at their core.
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Let me add some well meaning conjecture. Things I believe deeply.
Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin have been planning this since at least 2014, and probably longer.
They are steps ahead of us even when we doubt so.
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There's more, lots more, but that's what's most essential to this tale.
I don't have a solution to any of this. I don't know what or how we mobilize against this.
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We have to stop pretending that this is a situation that democracy will fix with it's own special kind of magic.
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We have to say this all out loud and, in the end, somehow #resist it all.
Pax.