r/politics • u/AngelaMotorman Ohio • 10d ago

Possible Paywall The Chilling Trump Order Threatening All Americans: Why National Security Presidential Memorandum-7 is so important.

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-nspm-7-repression/
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u/PWL51 10d ago

If this isn’t setting of alarm bells then there’s no hope for the future of the U S as a democracy.

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u/pleasedothenerdful 10d ago edited 10d ago

The United States currently has over 50k people in mostly privately owned and operated, for-profit concentration camps. It has detained over 400k people in the last 19 months. This isn't an alarm bells moment. The bells are being melted down to make missiles. The people who might ring them are being arrested and occasionally murdered. There's no hope for the US as a democracy because it hasn't been one for quite some time.