This is happening because--despite real resistance from millions of ordinary citizens--the wealthiest and most powerful among us have signed on with Mr. Trump.
Affluent partners at white shoe law firms; university administrators; CEOs of multi-billion-dollar corporations; heads of news organizations; bankers, private equity sharks, tech bros and traders, they have all signed on for the glories of the police state.
From Wall Street to Silicon Valley, from Jamie Dimon to Mark Zuckerberg, the men who could have stood up against the death of democracy, using their immense power and influence to push back against the Republican project, instead stood up and cheered.
They see in Mr. Trump's escalating war on the constitution their own liberation from the civic burdens of democracy: taxation, oversight, regulation, equal application of the rule of law, fair business practices, honor, fundamental decency.
An excellent article Radley. I can tell you, as someone who was part of the protests here in Los Angeles, they were overwhelmingly peaceful. As so often is the case the violence was started by the police themselves.
Keep in mind cops voted for Trump at higher rates than even the military. They are the vanguard of authoritarianism in this country.
I fear this is Trump trying to get D.C. on lockdown because he does not plan to ever leave office. He is controlling ang staging forces to try and beat back any challenge to his power. He want to do a Tiananmen Square.
Anyway, sorry to plug, but please support my work and subscribe everyone. Help a struggling writer out.
Radley, another excellent article...there is a lot to be said about Trump and his hateful, egotistical, appalling policies...and I hope it is said in time. DJT is not only pandering to his white supremacist base, but he and his yes men and women are supporting his Hitlerian tactics for his dictatorship. I find it hard to understand that values and character are unimportant. My thirty-four-year-old son was killed by police officers in 2017, and I have learned the hard way that the fix is in to protect police, and now DJT is pushing for universal absolute immunity for rogue cops. The system will not decertify. Good people MUST push back now.
Robert W. Coakley, The Role of Federal Military Forces in Domestic Disorders, 1789-1879 Washington US Army Center for Military History 2014;
Clayton D Laurie and Ronald H Cole, The role of Federal Military Forces in Domestic Disorders, 1877-1945. Washington: US Army Center for Military History, 1997;
Paul J. Scheips, The Role of Federal Military Forces in Domestic Disorders, 1945-1992. Washington US Army Center for Military History 2012.
All accessible online. See Scheips's description of Operation Garden Plot.
This is happening because--despite real resistance from millions of ordinary citizens--the wealthiest and most powerful among us have signed on with Mr. Trump.
Affluent partners at white shoe law firms; university administrators; CEOs of multi-billion-dollar corporations; heads of news organizations; bankers, private equity sharks, tech bros and traders, they have all signed on for the glories of the police state.
From Wall Street to Silicon Valley, from Jamie Dimon to Mark Zuckerberg, the men who could have stood up against the death of democracy, using their immense power and influence to push back against the Republican project, instead stood up and cheered.
They see in Mr. Trump's escalating war on the constitution their own liberation from the civic burdens of democracy: taxation, oversight, regulation, equal application of the rule of law, fair business practices, honor, fundamental decency.
An excellent article Radley. I can tell you, as someone who was part of the protests here in Los Angeles, they were overwhelmingly peaceful. As so often is the case the violence was started by the police themselves.
https://bettergracesandliberations.substack.com/p/a-word-from-los-angeles
Keep in mind cops voted for Trump at higher rates than even the military. They are the vanguard of authoritarianism in this country.
I fear this is Trump trying to get D.C. on lockdown because he does not plan to ever leave office. He is controlling ang staging forces to try and beat back any challenge to his power. He want to do a Tiananmen Square.
Anyway, sorry to plug, but please support my work and subscribe everyone. Help a struggling writer out.
https://bettergracesandliberations.substack.com
Traitors and lickspittles. Anyone who supports Trump should be treated as a monster.
Well said.
Radley, another excellent article...there is a lot to be said about Trump and his hateful, egotistical, appalling policies...and I hope it is said in time. DJT is not only pandering to his white supremacist base, but he and his yes men and women are supporting his Hitlerian tactics for his dictatorship. I find it hard to understand that values and character are unimportant. My thirty-four-year-old son was killed by police officers in 2017, and I have learned the hard way that the fix is in to protect police, and now DJT is pushing for universal absolute immunity for rogue cops. The system will not decertify. Good people MUST push back now.
The $$$ has been spread around in the past and suspect that will continue.
Here are the billionaires who donated a million dollars to the Harris 2024 campaign:
Arthur Blank (Atlanta Falcons)
Michael Bloomberg (Bloomberg, former New York mayor)
Neil Bluhm (Real estate)
John Doerr (Kleiner Perkins)
Amy Goldman Fowler (New York real estate)
Avram Glazer (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn)
Robert Hale, Jr. (Granite Telecommunications)
Amos Hostetter, Jr. (Cable)
Bruce Karsh (Oaktree Capital Management)
Vinod Khosla (Khosla Ventures)
Seth Klarman (Baupost)
Henry Laufer (Renaissance Technologies)
Stephen Mandel, Jr. (Lone Pine Capital)
George Marcus (Marcus & Millichap)
Michael Moritz (Sequoia Capital)
Dustin Moskovitz (Facebook)
John Pritzker (Hyatt hotels)
Haim Saban (Fox Family Channel)
Sheryl Sandberg (Facebook)
Eric Schmidt (Google)
Lynn Schusterman (Samson Resources)
David Shaw (D.E. Shaw)
The late Jim Simons (Renaissance Technologies)
Gwendolyn Sontheim Meyer (Cargill)
Steven Spielberg (Hollywood director)
Thomas Steyer (Farallon Capital)
Pat Stryker (Stryker Corp.)
Here's the link to the Forbes online article that supplied the above list: https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereksaul/2024/10/30/kamala-harris-has-more-billionaires-prominently-backing-her-than-trump-bezos-and-griffin-weigh-in-updated/
See
Robert W. Coakley, The Role of Federal Military Forces in Domestic Disorders, 1789-1879 Washington US Army Center for Military History 2014;
Clayton D Laurie and Ronald H Cole, The role of Federal Military Forces in Domestic Disorders, 1877-1945. Washington: US Army Center for Military History, 1997;
Paul J. Scheips, The Role of Federal Military Forces in Domestic Disorders, 1945-1992. Washington US Army Center for Military History 2012.
All accessible online. See Scheips's description of Operation Garden Plot.