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We are not in a slow moving coup, we are in a fast moving coup. Beyond a 5 alarm emergency. [1]
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Date: 2025-02-10
I am not an alarmist by nature. And I’ve been fighting the gloom and doom around here and everywhere else with every bit of spirit I can summon. But tonight I’m kind of scared out of my mind.
Rachel Maddow did half her show on this tonight. “We are on the precipice...” She was referring to the end of the rule of law in our country, and therefore the end of our republic. Precipice means now, soon, emergency.
If you missed her show, find it and watch it. For my purposes here I’m going to draw from an article I also read tonight, written by George Conway, founder of the Lincoln Republicans. He and Rachel are both saying the same thing, and the gist of it is, Don’t count on our courts to save us, even the ones trying to do the right thing.
www.rawstory.com/…
Conway says it like this:
They are not going to obey court orders, they have decided that they are going to push the boundaries on executive power by basically infringing on the Article 1 power of Congress, and they are violating statutory, they're violating the text of the Constitution in the birthright citizenship issue.
And they are ignoring every other court order issued since Trump took office. Unprecedented. So what happens then?
there's really only one way that courts can enforce their orders when somebody is being contumacious and refusing to obey an order, and that's to send the U.S. Marshals out to take somebody in and to hold them in contempt or to otherwise enforce court orders."
And this:
"Well, who does the U.S. Marshals Service work for?" Conway added. "The U.S. Marshals Service is part of the United States Department of Justice. It reports to Donald J. Trump, and what's going to happen here, mark my words, is that at some point, they are going to basically tell the United States Marshals Service, do not enforce any of these orders, we will not obey them, and you are not to enforce them
And then it depends on the DOJ or parts of it, rebelling and refusing to follow Trump’s orders. Conway isn’t optimistic, and either am I.
"The only recourse is to go out on the streets and march," Conway said. "That is the only recourse.
This is why they are moving so fast, the chaos, the endless lesser issues to try to hide what’s really happening here, until it’s too late to do anything about it.
Conway thinks we’ll have to get in the streets, en-freaking-masse. Other countries have had to do it. (See for example, most recently, South Korea.) Our turn.
And yet, most of this country is not paying attention, doesn’t see this coming, and coming soon. Yes, it’s all over the news, but as always, depends which news people are watching, if they’re watching at all.
I’m thinking we need to get organizing for the streets. Now. Every Democratic organization, including every one of our Democratic reps, local, state and federal--- put on emergency alert--a call to get in the streets.
Seems to me the longer we “wait and see” the more we play into their hands. Because If our courts don’t hold, all the other horrors of Trump’s first weeks in office---his cabinet picks, DOGE, Musk, the whole putrid laundry list) become irrelevant, as we have no actionable solution if court orders are no longer obeyed by the president of the United States, and his wish is the DOJ’s command.
Maybe someone can talk me down, but all my instincts are waving big red danger, danger, danger flags. Dire circumstances demand dire actions. Now.
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