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Oh, good. I must have misunderstood the whole "disappeared to an El Salvadoran prison without due process" story.

... And you've gotten very close to the point without touching it. The country has been sliding, this whole time. Reagan arguably started the ball rolling. It just takes a long time to break down the democratic norms in a country this big.

But they're broken down now.

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milesrout 4 days ago | parent [-]

You did misunderstand it. Applying the law of the land as it has stood and been applied for hundreds of years isn't fascist. If anyone thought the Alien Enemies Act were fascist they could have repealed it at any time since the 18th century.

Nobody is being "disappeared". The word you are looking for is "deported". Deportation isn't a new idea or a new thing.

>The country has been sliding, this whole time. Reagan arguably started the ball rolling.

No it hasn't. The US became freer under all of those presidents, except George W. Bush and his surveillance programmes. None of them are fascists. In no case did the country end up closer to fascism after they were in.

The US is nowhere near fascism. The fact anyone thinks it is near it is just more evidence of how uneducated Americans are about the rest of the world.

Trump hasn't damaged or broken down any "democratic norms".

Yeah he claimed his election loss was illegitimate. So did Hilary Clinton! (It was all just a Russian hoax remember? Trump is a Russian agent--all the debunked Russiagate claims). It isn't like he started a civil war over it, unless you're one of those people that believes the absurd propaganda that claims he instigated an attempted coup by giving a speech where he didn't tell anyone to do anything, suggest anyone do anything, or or in any other way encourage or instigate anything.

I'm sorry your preferred candidate lost. I get it. It happens to us all. It isn't the end of the world. Presidents are allowed to act in accordance with the law--including their own stretched interpretations of it until they get kicked back by the courts--and that includes all the things Trump is being accused of.

	▲	shadowgovt 4 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		They snatched somebody off the street. Put them on a plane to El Salvador. Without any due process . Then definitively said they made a mistake. And he's not back. This isn't about preferred candidates losing. I've had preferred candidates lose multiple times in my life for various positions. This is the culmination of the process that has been rolling through America responding to an attack on our home soil by creating a Department of Homeland security. This is the last chance for it to stop getting worse. There isn't another step beyond "They can disappear you from the street and drop you in a prison in El Salvador with no trial." > the Alien Enemies Act ... Is for wartime. It's "Enemies" as in the phrase "Enemies at war, in peace friends". Who are we at war with right now? If you believe "terrorism," you have understood my point.
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