Thread by @dcpetterson

We're seeing an attack on America's law enforcement and judicial systems with no parallel in American history. The purpose is to hollow out the existing systems and re-people them with stooges who are personally loyal to the Emperor.
1/10

It's rapidly happening with ICE and with the federal judiciary. The latter will take a bit longer, since federal judges have lifetime appointments. But GOPhascists kept so many judgeships open during President Obama's terms there are now an unprecedented number of vacancies.
2/10

We've seen reports of ICE agents arresting doctors, combat vets, mothers and children. Waiting outside schools to pick up parents and their kids. Coming to hospitals to deport the injured and sick. Stalking courthouses to collect women who are reporting domestic abuse.
3/10

ICE agents have come onto Greyhound buses and demanded to see proof of citizenship from passengers.

Imagine if the FBI and federal marshals began acting this way, not just targeting undocumented residents, but protesters, Twitter users, LGBTQ, unapproved T-shirts.
4/10

This is happening amid the background of an assault on our wages, earned benefits, and voting rights. The GOPHascists are in the process of stealing your retirement money and healthcare, putting that cash directly into their pockets, and preventing you from voting them out.
5/10

Today, the poor, minorities, students and the elderly are being targeted for vote suppression. It won't stop there. The goal is for the GOPhascists to pick who gets to vote. Gerrymandering is designed to reduce representation on a purely partisan basis.
6/10

The rights of women, non-Christians and non-straights are being systematically dismantled under perversely-named "religious freedom" bills, to be enforced by a perverted judiciary and a new Gestapo.

And all this is being rapidly normalized.
7/10

The three branches of our government are supposed to limit each other, but GOPhascist legislators have become mere servants of the executive, and the courts are being packed with ideologues and toadies.

This is how dictators seize power.
8/10

If you ever wondered how Germany allowed itself to be twisted into the nation that enthusiastically embraced extermination camps, look around you. You're watching the process unfold. You're living it.

These are the most vital and dreadful days of your life.
9/10

Your descendants--if you have any--will ask what you did to prevent the fascist conquest of America under Donald Trump.

You really want to have an answer.

10/10