If you voted for Trump because you wanted egg prices to go down, you are no doubt disappointed (which is just as well, because this was an idiotic reason).
But if you voted for Trump because you wanted to live in a police state where power-drunk government officials can grab somebody off the street at their whim, whisk him out of the country without allowing him to plead his case, throw him into a hellhole to rot, refuse to explain what crime he broke, and refuse to bring him back even after the US Supreme Court tells them to do so, then your wildest dreams have come true.
Also, you are a fascist.
Only an authoritarian could love the following developments (this list comes courtesy of NextDraft’s Dave Pell):
The sending of potentially innocent people to a gulag-like prison in El Salvador.
The disappearing of people and due process.
The glad-handing, jubilant Oval Office meeting with a leader who has referred to himself as “the coolest dictator” by an American president who said he’d love to send American “homegrown criminals” to a similar prison abroad.
The ignoring of a series of court orders and the wanton flouting of a 9-0 Supreme Court ruling.
The presidential displaying of a clearly doctored photo that makes it seem like a man sent to the CECOT terrorism confinement center by mistake was a member of a dangerous gang.
The firing of the Justice Department lawyer who made it clear that the man’s fate was due to a clerical error.
The sadistic photo ops from the US head of Homeland Security posing in front of CECOT prisoners.
The ceding of America’s high ground when it comes to due process and the rule of law.
The refusal to apologize for any mistakes.
The refusal to rectify any of those mistakes.
The celebration of cruelty.
All of this makes for a disturbingly lengthy list.
In addition, there is also the fact that government agencies are now acting like snitches, federal officials are suggesting rounding up immigrants like Amazon Prime handles packages, scientists working on life-saving breakthroughs are being detained, and people just trying to become patriotic American citizens are being arrested.
Plus, we have a president who falls for painfully obvious internet hoaxes like he’s a damn nine-year-old child.
Until recently, I thought right-wingers were against jackbooted government thugs. Clearly, their principled stance against government oppression was just as strong as their principled beliefs in freedom of speech, the US Constitution, and Jesus Christ, which is to say, all that talk was bullshit, and they believe in nothing except power.
Someone should tell those freedom-loving warriors that “if government officials can say anything, true or not, to justify their actions… what stops them from doing that to an American citizen?” In such a country, the government “can claim anything and act with impunity against anyone.”
Yes, right now, they can do it to anyone.
