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Democracy Hanging in The Balance [1]

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Date: 2025-09-10

While President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance rubbed elbows and possibly swapped stories about sofas and salacious drawings over dinner last night, Russia pushed the world closer to World War III. Polish and Dutch fighter jets, with assistance from other NATO countries, were scrambled and shot down some of the reported 19 drones in Polish airspace on their way to Ukraine. During her failed campaign to stop fascism in its tracks, former Vice President Kamala Harris warned that Donald Trump would abandon our Polish ally. Almost to the day, on September 10, 2024, when then-candidate Trump refused to commit to defending our NATO allies in a debate, then VP Harris warned, “Otherwise, (Russian President Vladimir) Putin would be sitting in Kyiv with his eyes on the rest of Europe, starting with Poland,” she said.

While the world and America stare at the countdown clock, waiting for his vapid promise to end the Ukraine-Russia war in 24 hours to come true someday, couple that with the bombing by the Israelis in Qatar, the Nobel Peace Prize—that Trump so wantonly covets--seems to be slipping through his fingers like the grease on his Big Mac. Donald Trump’s presidencies have been filled with chaos, as another famous female candidate for president once said, he is “unfit.” Hillary Clinton said during her 2016 campaign, “Donald Trump’s ideas aren’t just different, they’re dangerously incoherent. They’re not even really ideas, just a series of bizarre rants, personal feuds and outright lies,” she said. “He is not just unprepared. He is temperamentally unfit to hold an office that requires knowledge, stability, and immense responsibility.”

Should anyone doubt that both Clinton and Harris were correct, his presidency is proof positive. His misunderstanding of tariffs as a tax on America, using the military as a police force in direct violation of the law, and strongarming the Supreme Court into ruling against the 4th Amendment, to name a few. With Republicans cheering his lawlessness and hypocrisy, we have become a fascist nation. With the Supreme Court essentially eliminating the Fourth Amendment's guarantee not to be profiled because of race, language, or job status (obviously directed at the Hispanic population), the question has to be asked: Who is next? The hypocrisy and racism in which the Trump administration operates are breathtaking but not surprising.

While ignoring high crime rates in red states led by GOP governors and mayors, Mr. Trump is hell bent on making a show of blue state cities led by Democratic black mayors. Using what former Secretary of State and First Lady Hillary Clinton described as a ‘series of bizarre rants, personal feuds and outright lies, ’ Mr. Trump has alternately threatened and disparaged minority cities. One of the tactics of a despot is first to dehumanize, and then propagandize for their elimination. Mr. Trump has promised a war on the city of Chicago. Using imagery from the movie Apocalypse Now, Mr. Trump gave away the game with the tagline in an AI-generated poster depicting himself as Lt. Col. Bill Kilgore: ‘I love the smell of deportation in the morning.’

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker said it best, “When did we become a country where it's okay for the U.S. president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything, especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?” Pritzker said. So, while President Trump makes a joke referencing dropping napalm on an American city, hearing some of my fellow Americans accept a military takeover, in the guise of crime prevention, is a part of how Hitler came to deranged dictatorial power.

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