Saturday, March 29, 2025

Chilling Dissent

In this morning’s Koffee Klatch Robert Reich made the statement that the Trump regime wants to “chill all dissent”. They are achieving this on multiple fronts.

·        Detaining and disappearing international students who have been critical of the Trump regime or some position of it (e.g. Israel/Palestine)

·        Detaining and disappearing immigrants who the Trump regime believes (no evidence necessary) are criminals (e.g. Venezuela gang)

·        Removing security clearance and federal building access to law firms that have any connection with previous lawsuits against him

·        Forcing universities to toe the line on DEI, Palestine, etc. or lose millions in federal funding.

·        Attacking journalists and media corporations who speak out against the Trump regime

These examples are just that - examples. Trump is setting them as examples of what he can do to discourage any future dissent by anyone. Reich: This is what every authoritarian, totalitarian dictator has done going right back to Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin. This is exactly what we have seen from Putin in Russia, Erdogan in Turkey, Orban in Hungary. These are attacks on individual’s freedom to speak out…”

It’s the end of March and Spring is coming soon here in Canada. But in America there is a chill in the air coming from Washington D.C., sending shivers up the spine of all freedom loving people.

Source:

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/is-the-trump-fever-breaking-saturday


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