The two tipping points for when we officially become a dictatorship could occur this week https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-two-tipping-points-for-when-we?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
The two tipping points for when we officially become a dictatorship could occur this week

Friends,

Robert Reich
Jacob T. Levy (@jacobtlevy.bsky.social)

I had been doubtful that we were going to have a "this is the crisis moment" with Trump, as opposed to "everything about this is a destructive catastrophe." But the Abrego Garcia case is the crisis moment. 1/

Bluesky Social
@rbreich There's a further one - declaring martial law (because he can), and thus acquire more power over the courts, working unencumbered by legal restraints, and having the military be used domestically, which is normally not allowed.
@rbreich Thanks for this. One note though, in the first part of the article, you're accidentally referring to Mr. García as "Chavez", twice. You may want to fix that
@rbreich that was a very interesting read, particularly the comment threads.do not despair, the Europeans, the Canadians the Mexicans and the Japanese together with China have the capacity to trade together without the Americans, we can force you into recession, we can weaponise your debt, we can kill your dollars. The medicine will be tough for all of us but very tough for the American people. 71million Americans put you here, we all need the other 250million Americans to reject a king!
@rbreich We have arrived at the destination.
@rbreich opinion polls does not matter. Even elections are highly dubious at this point. I won't call America dictatorship, trump is waaaay unpopular. But he will want to become one and we we are getting very quickly point of no return territory. Where if Congress not gonna act, things will take natural and very ugly turn.