The Trump Administration admits they’re planning on nationwide secret police who kidnap Americans off the street without identifying themselves or reading their rights and holding them indefinitely.
They’re telling you, explicitly, that they’re crafting an authoritarian state.
They’re telling you, explicitly, that they’re crafting an authoritarian state.
This isn’t a joke. It’s not political posturing or fishing for retweets. This is a constitutional crisis of the highest order, an authoritarian president stripping Americans of their rights because he sees them as enemies and terrorists.
If you want to understand how it came to this, how America could possibly end up at the mercy of the whims of a paranoid authoritarian, this thread gets into the ideology and history that has propelled us into this moment of societal crisis.
