"Every day, the Trump administration shows its contempt for democratic norms. Just this month, we've seen the White House seemingly manufacture corruption charges to remove Federal Reserve board member Lisa Cook, a vindictive effort to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda, Donald Trump's flooding of DC with national guardsmen from Republican states, and the suspension of the FEMA whistleblowers for contradicting the president on the dangers of cutting disaster-preparedness services."
"This week's cabinet meeting was an exercise in sycophancy the likes of which the world saw with mid-century totalitarian regimes but which the United States has never previously witnessed. It was so fawning, so lickspittle-y, so grotesquely despotic that one can only hope every participant in this charade spends the rest of their miserable lives having nightmares about those three hours on August 26, 2025, hours during which they collectively fed their souls into a paper shredder."
"These didn't sound like cabinet secretaries speaking frankly in a democratic, pluralist environment; rather, it was as if these minions desperately hoped to avoid being sent to Alligator Alcatraz or having their toenails forcibly removed or whatever other sadistic vision the Dear One might conjure up. These were fearful, little people, more akin to Saddam Hussein's enablers than to United States' great statesmen of yore. It was the quintessence of pathetic, the purest distillation of mediocrity."
The Trump administration repeatedly shows contempt for democratic norms, employing tactics that weaken legal safeguards and institutional independence. The White House allegedly manufactured corruption charges to remove a Federal Reserve board member and pursued a vindictive deportation effort. Federal forces and national guardsmen have been deployed for political ends, and FEMA whistleblowers were suspended for contradicting the president on disaster-preparedness cuts. A cabinet meeting on August 26, 2025, displayed extreme sycophancy, likened to mid-century totalitarian regimes, with participants offering fawning praise and fear-driven compliance. Cabinet officials behaved like fearful minions, resembling authoritarian enablers rather than experienced statesmen. The administration targets opponents to consolidate unlimited power.
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