"President Donald Trump called for the jailing of Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Illinois Governor JB Pritzker. A sitting president, demanding that elected officials be imprisoned. Let that sink in. Over their objections, he federalized troops from Texas to enforce his will. This is not theater. It is not a tweetable grievance. It is an unprecedented assault on constitutional norms, federalism, and the rule of law."
"Americans have become numb. Numb to insults. Numb to threats. Numb to authoritarian theater masquerading as politics. But the media cannot afford to become numb. And yet, they unquestionably have — to at least some degree. Outrage has become a commodity, recycled endlessly in clickbait form. And now, when a president targets the leaders of a major city and state for political retribution, many in the press treat it like just another news cycle. It is not."
President Donald Trump called for jailing Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Illinois Governor JB Pritzker and federalized troops from Texas to enforce his will. The actions represent an unprecedented assault on constitutional norms, federalism, and the rule of law. The deployment of federal troops on state soil without governor consent raises Posse Comitatus and Insurrection Act concerns. Media outlets risk normalizing authoritarian tactics by treating such threats as routine news cycles amid performative outrage. The situation signals a blueprint for bullying and criminalizing elected officials for political reasons and demands urgent moral clarity and legal scrutiny.
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