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Trump lashes out, acting as an authoritarian in attacks on perceived opponents
Trump lashes out, acting as an authoritarian in attacks on perceived opponents
The Trump administration is testing out whether Trump can get away with taking a clearly more authoritarian path forward. We must respond accordingly.
CHRIS GEIDNER
MAR 08, 2025
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This week, President Donald Trump acted as an authoritarian. … The only real question is whether anyone will stop him from being an authoritarian.
In act after act, Trump and his cronies went after political opponents with extreme actions that could only take place in a country where the First Amendment and equal protection guarantees are rendered a nullity and where the procedural protections put in place to prevent the very sort of actions Trump is taking are nonexistent.
A specific law firm, a specific university, a specific union, a specific hospital, and certain nonprofit employees were targeted for unfavorable treatment simply because Trump doesn’t like them and what they stand for.
If these weren’t the acts a man who clearly wishes to be a dictator, some of them would almost be comical in their cartoonishly evil absurdity. … But, coming as they did, from whom the did, and when they did, it was an alarming week.
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The Trump administration is testing out whether Trump can get away with taking a clearly more authoritarian path forward. We must respond accordingly.
CHRIS GEIDNER
MAR 08, 2025
{snip picture}
This week, President Donald Trump acted as an authoritarian. … The only real question is whether anyone will stop him from being an authoritarian.
In act after act, Trump and his cronies went after political opponents with extreme actions that could only take place in a country where the First Amendment and equal protection guarantees are rendered a nullity and where the procedural protections put in place to prevent the very sort of actions Trump is taking are nonexistent.
A specific law firm, a specific university, a specific union, a specific hospital, and certain nonprofit employees were targeted for unfavorable treatment simply because Trump doesn’t like them and what they stand for.
If these weren’t the acts a man who clearly wishes to be a dictator, some of them would almost be comical in their cartoonishly evil absurdity. … But, coming as they did, from whom the did, and when they did, it was an alarming week.
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