• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    you’re delusional.

    So much of the existing Trump Regime is simply couched within the “Unitary Executive” established under Nixon, Reagan, Clinton, and Bush. What he is able to do is a direct consequence of the accumulated policies of prior administrations.

    There are degrees of criminality, corruption and pure evil.

    If you think Operation Dirtbag is meaningfully different than Operation Wetback, you’re just coasting on recency bias. The US has a long and storied history of unleashing its military, paramilitary, and vigilante agents on minority groups and immigrant communities. This is horrifying to you because it is on your TV every day, rather than in your history textbook a few times back in grade school.