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Andy Myers's avatar

I fear you are entirely correct. I also fear this is a prelude to cancelling the 2026 mid terms. The regime is inciting unrest. Military in Washington and now to be sent to Portland. The deployment of troops domestically is historically one of the most alarming signals in a democracy. Even if framed as “protection,” it creates the justification for normalising military oversight of civil life and laying the groundwork for elections to be “protected,” or suspended.

The state of American civil behaviour is already degenerating into vulgarity. The faux grief over Kirks death, manufactured accusations of hate speech by so called "leftists." Trumps threatened removal of late night show hosts coming to fruition and now his threats of retaliation and, targeting of opponents underlines the risk of “weaponised prosecution,” a tactic common in illiberal regimes, where the rule of law is retained in form but bent in practice. And now this weaponisation is being carried out by his pocket prosecutors on the likes of former FBI director Comey.

Sport is often seen as neutral ground. The spillover of vulgarity and hostility there highlights how everyday rituals that once promoted unity are now arenas of division. This weekend we hear reports of the crowds at a Golf game, normally a benign group only interested in the skill of the competitors being disruptive and targeting European competitors and their families with hate.

The collapse isn’t sudden, it's incremental, a slow normalisation of hostility, distrust, and state intrusion that makes each step feel less shocking than the last meanwhile the USA slowly collapses into a swamp of unregulated, anti science, racist, hateful rhetoric.

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DONALD IAN MACLEOD's avatar

Again, a spot-on assessment Robin. The Trump Circus, led by the consummate clown himself, is indeed unleashing the equivalent of a Stalinist purge across the military, political and judicial spectrums of anyone who doesn't fit the Trump Circus mold....

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