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Assert Good: If leaders stay silent, US won’t survive Trump’s next 100 days - We are tottering on the edge of dictatorship. Powerful voices across institutions, from politics to academia / religion (www.theguardian.com)

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If leaders stay silent, the US won’t survive Trump’s next 100 days
Robert Reich
We are tottering on the edge of dictatorship. Powerful voices across institutions, from politics to academia and religion, must speak out
Wed 30 April 2025

We have witnessed the first 100 days of the odious Trump regime.

The US constitution is in peril. Civil and human rights are being trampled upon. The economy is in disarray.

At this rate, we will not make it through the second 100 days.

Federal judges in more than 120 cases so far have sought to stop Trump – judges appointed by Republicans as well as Democrats, some appointed by Trump himself – but the regime is either ignoring or appealing their orders. It has even arrested a municipal judge in Milwaukee amid a case involving an undocumented defendant.

Recently, Judge J Harvie Wilkinson III of the court of appeals for the fourth circuit – an eminent conservative Reagan appointee who is revered by the Federalist Society – issued a scathing rebuke to the Trump regime. In response to its assertion that it can abduct residents of the US and put them into foreign prisons without due process, Wilkinson wrote:

If today the Executive claims the right to deport without due process and in disregard of court orders, what assurance will there be tomorrow that it will not deport American citizens and then disclaim responsibility to bring them home? And what assurance shall there be that the Executive will not train its broad discretionary powers upon its political enemies? The threat, even if not the actuality, would always be present, and the Executive’s obligation to ‘take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed’ would lose its meaning.

Wilkinson’s fears are already being realized. Ice recently deported three US citizens – aged two, four and seven – when their mothers were deported to Honduras. One of the children, who has stage 4 cancer, was sent out of the US without medication or consultation with doctors.

Meanwhile, the regime continues to attack all the independent institutions in this country that have traditionally served as buffers against tyranny – universities, non-profits, lawyers and law firms, the media, science and researchers, libraries and museums, the civil service and independent agencies – threatening them with extermination or loss of funding if they do not submit to its oversight and demands.

MORE: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/30/trump-next-100-days

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I think the hybrid warfare / information warfare has put everyone into states of amusement and mockery over the situation and very few are seeing things clearly like Robert Reich. Goodness needs to be asserted, and his calling out religion clergy I consider very important. We are in a morality crisis, people are all flocking to bad of mass dehumanization - adopting the Twitter-thinking Tweet-mindsets of Elon Musk and Donald Trump values. The cults keep growing deeper, the "love Trump" message and meme cults / thrilled at "owning the libs", and the "hate Trump / hate Elon Musk / hate JD Vance" cult that is thrilled at all the memes and messages - the constant content of mockery and mocking.

His polls are plummeting yet many Americans are still in denial. “He’s getting things done!” some say. “He’s tough and strong!”

Every American with any shred of authority must loudly and boldly explain the danger we are in.

Anyone in the world could go to Reddit or Bluesky and post "Day 1 of 700, I am from Australia - Down Under - and here to help Americans learn cult deprogramming and how to fix your Bible literacy problems" - but the cults of hate harder memes and messages are so deep since January 2024 that this isn't happening.

America’s religious leaders have a moral obligation to speak out. They have a spiritual duty to their congregations and to themselves to make their voices heard.

Yes, and everyone in the world has a moral obligation / civic duty to save the world by fixing long-standing clergy failures in morality. It's clear almost none are protesting the $59.99 Trump Bible (verse Matthew 6:5 should be a household name since 2024, really earlier) and we need cram courses in [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

The US constitution is in peril. Civil and human rights are being trampled upon. The economy is in disarray.

He is a good writer, a good communicator, he is active on YouTube and able to get in major press and onto social media like Reddit... but the audience / the population (not just legal voters, everyone) is so lost.

People all across the world are unable to assert goodness in the face of the charms of Donald Trumpism / Twitter-think Tweeting-mindset values.

This song comes to mind, how Robert Reich is communicating clearly yesterday, but we lost the populations of the world.

So many rash promises sincerely made by people who believed that we were being saved. They made us all believe that we were acting white. But the truth is we've forgotten how we used to fight.
Nobody knows why we fell so flat. We're impotent and neutered like whining cats. We've found the piper, but we've lost the rats.
But the kids are crying "Why'd I fall for that, dad?" Why did you fall?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9J6ZRHv0lQQ