Trump's Reichstag moment is unfolding in Los Angeles, where he is baiting unrest and chaos over reckless ICE tactics. He had his openly bigoted fascist henchman Stephen Miller order quotas for ICE detentions and deportations, breaking their promise to prioritize arrests for violent criminals.
He WANTS riots and social unrest to justify his authoritarian crackdown on our former democratic republic. Those of us who try to be informed and rational have seen this coming. Those of us who read history understand this is fascism tightening its grip over the country.
It has been gestating for decades before Trump came along as America's first Felon president. Trump's tyranny depends on agitating the worst Americans who lack empathy and compassion.
The Radical Right propaganda machine has been relentless in fueling hate and bigotry through lies, demonization of dissent, and fascist scapegoating.
White nationalism and oligarchy have finally won their cold civil war.
This
social/moral sickness of greed, bigotry, racism, ignorance, and indifference is abetting Trump's ambition to be a military dictator who rules over an expanding
"Police States of America".
History teaches us this will only get far worse before the light of day shines again over MAGA's American Dark Age.
Hang on. Resist. Persist. And VOTE!
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So... perhaps this is a case of two things, or even more things, being true at the same time.
Does Trump have a dictatorial view of the presidency? Of course he does. No sane person can look at his actions and come to a different conclusion. Now, that does not mean he hates America and wants to see it fail. I'm just saying he is going about his job in the fashion of an autocrat or dictator.
Trump sees no need for Constitutional norms, scoffs at the SCOTUS and has publicly stated that because he was elected, he should be able to carry out his agenda, even if the courts say no. So much for three co-equal branches of government.
If he walks like a dictator, talks like a dictator and governs like a dictator, he is at the very least, dictatorial.
Now... none of this excuses the feebleness of the current Democratic Party. Especially as it relates to immigration, the current issue de jour.
Excusing the fever swamp idiots who say Democrats don't "want THEIR children safe from pedophiles, traffickers and murderers", let's look at this critically.
Can anyone here name a member of the Dem leadership who has said America cannot survive with open borders and we have a right to determine who comes here? Can anyone here name a single Dem who has simply said, illegal immigration, undocumented immigration or immigration "without papers" is WRONG?
I seriously doubt it, because my closest leftie friends refuse to do so.
Heck, the fact that we have to have different terms to describe the same thing so as not to offend, should tell you something.
IMO the Dems HAVE forgotten who they serve, creating a vacuum filled by the loons on the right who have enabled the Great Trumpini, his henchman Stephen Miller and the rest of his rogues gallery of YES Men, essential in any dictatorship.
Dave,
The constant yammering about "illegals" from the Right has effectively drowned out anything Democrats did about immigration. Dems are simply not as effective at messaging as Republicans are about lying.
Yes, Biden did too little too late, but he actually deported more than Trump at times.
Trump Immigrant Removals Now 10 Percent Below Biden’s Record
https://tracreports.org/reports/756/
This was as of March 25, 2025.
We don't hear that in corporate or Trump media.
You won't hear that Biden sent troops to the border after Title 42 expired either.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2021/8/4/22605595/biden-immigration-border-title-42-deportation-mexico
Americans are oblivious of this as well:
Biden’s immigration policy isn’t Trump’s — but it’s still a disappointment
Migrants at the border are finding an unexpected adversary in Biden.
Also forgotten is Biden and the Democrats agreed to an expansive bipartisan border bill that Trump ordered killed. We also don't hear much about that.
The Republicans are better propagandists and at drowning out other voices.
As we have learned, too many Americans are too incurious to learn the facts.
So here we are...
And for the record, under Biden the US did NOT have "open borders". That's just another Republican LIE they told Americans.
Dave... I get the borders weren't open, but anyone being objective has to agree that we saw an increase in immigration during the Biden Admin.
Now, I know that many of those immigrants came legally, through the asylum system, but both political sides agree that system is broken, needs to be fixed and was being abused.
But think about the border... did Biden or Harris ever go there? I don't believe so, despite invites from border area Dems. Honestly, I don't think either one of them has invested as much time in understanding the border issues as I have.
How is that possible?
As for the bi partisan bill, why did it take so long? It was a good try, but the Dems got duped and had no way to respond.
Look, the politics of this are horrible for the Dems and they refuse to learn. Why can't they say, or won't simply say the violence in Los Angeles is wrong and the ppl who are violent are criminals and need to be arrested?
The opinion of many is they are afraid to do so, for fear of angering various voting coalitions. So we're left with the Dems explaining. And explaining some more.
IMHO... it's political malpractice.
Yes, the fascists always pull the wool over Americans’ eyes. Republicans decry crime and criminals as they install a felon in the White House. They decry political violence as they cheer pardons for Trump’s J6 thugs.
Paraphrasing Van Jones, Democrats have to be flawless while Republicans can be lawless.
John Fetterman joined the Republican band wagon in lying that Democrats don’t condemn violence, after meeting with Steve Bannon, no less!
After a short search:
Rep. Nanette Barragán
Now, again, any violence is completely unacceptable.
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/09/nx-s1-5427213/democratic-rep-barragan-trump-immigration-raids-los-angeles
California Democratic senator Adam Schiff urged restraint from protesters, warning on social media that “violence is never the answer…plays directly into the hands of those who seek to antagonize and weaponize the situation for their own gain”.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/09/los-angeles-immigration-protests-trump-reaction
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer
“The bottom line is that violence in the riots is outrageous and should never happen full stop. That’s the bottom line, and anyone who commits violence or breaks the law should be fully prosecuted,”
https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/la-protests-ice-raids-trump-06-10-25
All on deaf ears.
As Trump’s thugs are praised and pardoned, Democrats get smeared for not condemning violence.
This is why this country is finished. When truth is dead, so is democracy.
Biden has visited the U.S.-Mexico border multiple times during his presidency.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDfPwNtTKeo
Harris at the border:
https://apnews.com/article/kamala-harris-donald-trump-border-arizona-4a87c6f3b2df1736aa226bc620f51b89
Again, all on deaf ears and closed eyes being overwhelmed with Republican lies.
Dave, here's how David Ignatius summed the border up for Dems...
"Democrats’ mistake, over more than a decade, has been to behave as though border enforcement doesn’t matter. Pressured by immigrant rights activists, party leaders too often acted as if maintaining a well-controlled border was somehow morally wrong. Again and again, the short-term political interests of Democratic leaders in responding to a strong faction within the party won out over having a policy that could appeal to the country as a whole."
What does he say that is not based in the truth?
As for border visits by both Biden and Harris, I did not remember them ever going. That's on me, but maybe... a little on them? Was there any substantial policy they announced? Any views on immigration they shared on those visits I also missed?
Honestly, I do not know the political views Ignatius holds. I see him as a pretty honest broker of info with years of experience. He's been tough on Trump as it relates to Ukraine and yough on the Dems as it relates to the border.
I guess here's my dilemma...
When Trump came in, Biden had recently announced some policies/EOs to reduce immigration on the southern border. What took the Biden Admin so long? Were they not aware of what was happening? Or did they not think it was a big deal?
Either way, they should have taken their late 2024 actions in early 2023 and maybe, just maybe, Trump would not be president.
You know the old adage... even a broken clock is correct twice a day. That was trump on immigration. He said it was a problem. And it was. And the Dems lost a chance to offer a better solution than what we are seeing now from our Dictator in Chief when Biden failed to act earlier in his admin.
And unless the Dems get a coherent strategy together on this, Dems won't win the presidency in 2028 either. Because a majority of the US, is feeling that while Trump's policies may be horrible, they are better than the nothing burget the Dems are offering.
Ignatius is right, that the Dems failed in conveying a strong message on the border, despite their willingness to draft and support the bipartisan border bill. Now it's fashionable in corporate media to kick them while they are down.
Ignatius has been a "company man" who supported the invasion of Iraq and opposed Obama's investigation of CIA torture. He also supported their use of private contractors and mercenaries.
Dems need a policy that could "appeal to the country as a whole", whatever that means. Uninformed and authoritarian Americans voted for Project 2025, mass deportation, and military occupation of American cities as Trump urges troops to boo democrats and news media.
I hope this doesn't "appeal to the country as a whole", but we voted for it.
The Democratic Party's weak messaging and Biden's fatal error in betraying his promise to serve only one term added up to defeat.
It didn't matter that illegal immigration was down in 2024. The price of eggs seemed to be the number one issue. Again, Dems need to be flawless while Republicans are free to be lawless. Literally.
Let's not forget the ONLY reason Trump won is because his corrupt partisan cronies on the Supreme Court invented "presidential immunity" for their criminal court packer. The Democratic Republic committed suicide in 2016.
Now we have the dictatorship we voted for. The end.
BTW... for all the trolls, this is what conversation, back and forth with respect, looks like. I wonder Dave, why it is so hard for the MAGA lovers to engage like this...
Dave, this is a line that troubles me...
"Let's not forget the ONLY reason Trump won is because his corrupt partisan cronies on the Supreme Court invented "presidential immunity" for their criminal court packer."
I think if we really believe this to be true, we're gonna end up losing again. Because it excuses numerous realities. Certainly it part of the problem, but doesn't the Dem inability to make a positive case for their election, as opposed to "we ain't Trump" factor in?
Love him or hate him, at least Trump said what he was going to do. Did I miss Harris saying how she'd help middle, rural America, lower taxes on the middle class, balance the budget, etc?
Honestly, I have no idea what the Dems have stood for since 2016. Except "Don't be Trump." And if I talk to my more lefty friends, neither do they. They know what THEY want, but not what Dem leadership wants.
I'll stand by the logic that Trump would not have won if justice was allowed to proceed to felony convictions and prison, aka rule of law.
"Not Trump" should be reason enough to vote for them. The fact this fails to resonate is on them and corporate media. You're right that Harris failed to expound on policies that benefit most Americans. Also being a woman of color really did put her at a disadvantage in our still too racist and bigoted country.
Last month I discussed how Democrats needed better messaging.
http://www.davedubya.com/2025/05/democratic-agenda.html
Low approval ratings for the Democratic party in recent polls reflect the success of this massive partisan propaganda. We've learned Republican messaging through simplistic bumper sticker slogans will always be more effective than Democrats’ nuanced discussions of policy.
Democrats need to make more of an effort to communicate their policies and agenda to the public and to emphasize what they stand for and against. I have these few suggestions...
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