Summary
Judges across the U.S. are blocking Trump’s aggressive executive orders, with some rulings expressing deep frustration.
A Trump-appointed judge halted his attempt to place 2,200 USAID employees on leave, while another blocked Elon Musk’s team from accessing Treasury records.
A Reagan-appointed judge condemned Trump’s disregard for the rule of law in a ruling against his birthright citizenship plan.
These legal setbacks are forcing federal agencies to reveal more details and raising concerns over Trump’s expansive use of executive power.
The thing is, if that were true, they wouldn’t need brownshirts, Proud Boys, Oathkeepers, or any of those people. They wouldn’t need the Florida State Guard. A bunch of cops and prosecutors have been putting Oathkeepers in prison for a while now. They used to treat them nice, and they still cut them slack they shouldn’t cut them, but roughly four years ago, they went to literal war against the Trump people. And the cops put their lives on the line, pretty much all in an organized force, to try to physically stop them from doing all this undemocratic shit. They are the only people I am aware of who’ve done that. And, ever since then, they’ve been a lot less nice to the Trump people, and actively working to stop them. Again, they’re some of the only organized groups in America who are actually doing their jobs about it.
All those police-like groupings who are explicitly loyal to Trump are necessary because the police, for the most part, are not loyal to Trump. Some individual cops are, but I think after January 6th, the institution has come down against.
I actually share, with some of the “whole system is the enemy” leftists on Lemmy and apparently with no one else in the world, a pretty specific interest in the exact history of the internal politics in Germany as it was collapsing into fascism in the early 1930s. It’s obviously relevant today. And it’s interesting to me that those modern-day leftists seem, universally, to apply the exact same “liberals are the enemy, the system is the enemy, we have to go to war against anything that isn’t left-wing enough, it’s the only way” mentality to what happened in the 1930s just as much as they do the modern day.
You know who was trying to mobilize votes and coalitions to stop Hitler from getting into power, while there was still time to stop him? The Democrat-equivalents of the day, the SPD. You know who was fighting them the whole way and saying they were the main threat to progress and safety, and the whole thing of Hitler was less of an issue? The communists.
You know who was giving speeches against Hitler, after the communist party was illegal, all of its leaders were imprisoned, some of the SPD was imprisoned, and the parliament was a haunting half-full chamber with the empty spots serving as a stark warning about what might happen to you if you spoke against him? The SPD. Otto Wels was the only person to give a fiery Bernie-Sanders-being-right-in-retrospect speech against it. The final vote for the Enabling Act, which was the final curtain before the real horrors could start, was the SPD bloc against, the Nazi minority for, and the bloc of people too scared to go against the Nazis because they might get physically attacked (that being everyone else by that point): For.
I don’t know if the communists, at that point, were still calling the SPD “the main enemy,” but that’s what they were doing for roughly as long as it was legal for them to function as a party, before the Nazis came for them.
Bottom line, allies are good when things are dangerous. Don’t fuck up alliances because you’re looking for excuses to make enemies.