Yes, it can. And it already has. Liz Cheney warned America about "sleep-walking into dictatorship."
IMO, that's where we are. Now. Not the classic take-over that we've seen in European and other nations, but the American version, where a criminal president is given power by the highest court in the land to commit crimes while in office and not face accountability.
That's where we are.
An American president, with the complicity of his personal lawyer, Pam Bondi, is threatening to "denaturalize" and deport American citizens he deems unworthy of their legal citizenship.
Heather Cox Richardson:
Trump continues to say he will arrest and deport U.S. citizens to third countries. On April 14, a microphone picked up Trump’s comment to President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador that “homegrowns are next” after the undocumented immigrants Bukele was imprisoning for Trump. Today, Trump told reporters that “bad criminals” have migrated to the U.S., “but we also have a lot of bad people that have been here for a long time. People that whacked people over the head with a baseball bat from behind when they're not looking and kill them, people that knife you when you're walking down the street. They're not new to our country. They're old to our country. Many of them were born in our country. I think we ought to get them the hell out of here, too. You want to know the truth? So maybe that’ll be the next job that we'll work on together.”
He is also continuing to push the idea of attacking his political opponents.
Today, Trump called for an investigation into Alejandro Mayorkas, homeland security secretary under President Joe Biden. He also threatened to arrest the Democratic nominee for New York City mayor, Zohran Mamdani, if he doesn’t work with ICE agents to arrest migrants, although local and state governments have no legal obligation to work with federal immigration enforcement. Trump claimed—incorrectly—that Mamdani is a communist, and said that “a lot of people are saying he’s here illegally.”
In fact, Mamdani is a naturalized citizen.
Today Alan Feuer and Adam Goldman of the New York Times reported that a former FBI agent, Jared Wise, who was charged with telling the January 6, 2021, rioters storming the Capitol to kill police officers, is working with the task force in the Justice Department set up as a way for President Trump to seek retribution against his political enemies.
Once a new system of detention facilities and ICE agents is established and the idea that a Republican president can legitimately attack his political opponents is accepted, a police state will be in place."
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“Well, I think we'd like to see them in many states, really, many states. This one, I know Ron's doing a second one, at least a second one, and probably a couple of more. And, you know, at some point, they might morph into a system where you're going to keep it for a long time.”
Once that system is in place, it will not matter if Trump is able to do the work of the presidency. Today, a reporter from the Fox News Channel asked Trump about the new detention facility in the Everglades:
“Mr. President, is there an expected time frame that detainees will spend here? Days, weeks, months?”
Trump answered: “In Florida? I'm going to spend a lot. Look, this is my home state. I love it, I love your government, I love all the people around. These are all friends of mine. They know very well. I mean, I'm not surprised that they do so well. They're great people. Ron has been a friend of mine for a long time. I feel very comfortable in the state. I'll spend a lot of time here. I want to, you know, for four years, I've got to be in Washington, and I'm okay with it because I love the White House. I even fixed up the little Oval Office, I make it—it's like a diamond, it's beautiful. It's so beautiful. It wasn't maintained properly, I will tell you that. But even when it wasn't, it was still the Oval Office, so it meant a lot. But I'll spend as much time as I can here. You know, my vacation is generally here, because it's convenient. I live in Palm Beach. It's my home. And I have a very nice little place, nice little cottage to stay at, right? But we have a lot of fun, and I'm a big contributor to Florida, you know, pay a lot of tax, and a lot of people moved from New York, and I don't know what New York is going to do. A lot of people moved to Florida from New York, and it was for a lot of reasons, but one of them was taxes. The taxes are so high in New York, they're leaving. I don't know what New York's going to do about that, because some of the biggest, wealthiest people, and some of the people that pay the most taxes of any people anywhere in the world, for that matter, they're moving to Florida and other places. So we're going to have to help some of these states out, I think. But thank you very much. I'll be here as much as I can. Very nice question.”
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Our government is under the control of an aging cognitively impaired imbecile that nearly 1/2 of America believes is a super hero.
It will be interesting to watch them squirm and squeal when they finally realize they too have lost liberties and been screwed by the Orange "Man" they believed loved them.
It's not 1/2 of America. Trump's approval is polling in the low 40s; and in one poll, he's at 38%. Trump is as unpopular today as Biden was at the END of his presidency, and Trump has been in office less than 6 months!
And historians are still saying he is THE WORST president the US has ever suffered under.
The problem is that the SCOTUS gave this mentally failing half wit power to commit crimes while in the presidency with no consequences. They gave this profoundly stupid man who's also a convicted criminal the power to do more damage to our democracy than any other person in our 250 year history.
Regarding polling... as it relates to immigration, not overall job performance, Trump is above 50%. Millions and millions of people are angry about illegal immigration and in an agree/disagree poll land firmly on the agree, the president's side side.
And for him, this is THE issue. It's what got him elected.
I no longer pay attention to polls or pundits. They are both highly unreliable.
2026 will likely be the very last opportunity to wrestle control away from the fascists assaulting our democratic republic right now.
Only by electing an overwhelming democratic majority in both houses of congress and then following it up with another in 2028 does the country stand a chance of saving democracy and our republic.
Even with that if the FOTUS has another 1 or 2 opportunities to appoint younger authoritarian minded justices to the scotus then even that may not save us.
In short, I cannot help but to think America is screwed and America will have done it to itself through wilful ignorance and outright stupidity.
According to Gallup, Trump’s job approval rating in June was 40%. Very low for less than 6 months into his second term.
According to USAToday, July 2:
”What do polls show about Trump's immigration policies?
While the Republican base has long favored Trump's hardline immigration policies, opinions among Americans have wavered over the past few months, in the face of an escalating effort to deport undocumented immigrants and anti-ICE protests in June.
Yet in a pair of polls released last week, in which overall approval of the president's job performance sank to 41%, views on his immigration policies have also dipped.”
Exactly Dave. And America will support him based on this one metric. Which is the fast track the fascists are employing to take over control of the country.
USAToday Cont.
"In a Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday, June 26, 41% approved of Trump's immigration policies, with 57% disapproving. And on the topic of deportations, opinion was even lower, at a 39% approval and 59% disapproval.
A Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted June 21-23 revealed 49% of respondents said the country was headed in the wrong direction on immigration, with a 43% overall approval of the president's policies on the subject."
Polls are nothing more than a snapshot of how Americans are feeling about the current president and his administration.
That Quinnipiac Poll is new. That's good news. Previously CBS/Ipsos had deportations at 54% good.
Maybe the harshness of this is sinking in.
As has been proven in the past, Polls mean little. -H- was winning by a landslide, kamala was leading. Both according to the polls and somehow didn't happen.
Predicting who's going to win an election is entirely different from polling people on how they think Trump is doing as a president. It's a snap shot of what the American people are thinking.
The BBB is overwhelmingly unpopular with the American people. Trump's approval is in the low 40s, and in one poll it is 38% approval. Worse than at this point in his first term.
The American people see the BBB for what it is: A gift to billionaires and a catastrophe for vulnerable Americans.
This will not end well for Trump and his gang.
Is the American voting public thinking? If they are, (applys to MAGA) perhaps they should stop. Because if they are thinking, and it continues like this into the future, we'll be living in a fascist dictatorship run by a cabal of very wealthy unintelligent morons.
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