Rachel Maddow delivered a scathing monologue last night, noting: “We do now live in a country that has an authoritarian leader in charge. We have a consolidating dictatorship in our country.”
She cited “secret police,” “black site prison camps,” and other “shows of force.”
She added: “The question is no longer how to prepare for this risk or how to try to avert it, but rather how to fight it now that it is here and in effect.”
See Thomas Friedman’s commentary in today’s New York Times:
The America We Knew Is Rapidly Slipping Away
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/opinion/columnists/friedman-trump-labor-firing.html
It’s NOT Gone…..
Again?
Trump IS Stress testing the American Political System….
I think Democrats who would be Mayors who tell voters they have the power to and intend to arrest foreign heads of government in their cities over political differences and the Democrats who support said Mayoral candidates are also “stress testing the system”