William Lindsey :toad: on Nostr: "The crackdown on the George Floyd protests in the summer of 2020 was a prologue for ...
"The crackdown on the George Floyd protests in the summer of 2020 was a prologue for what will happen should Trump return to power—and after 2016, there is no excuse for thinking Trump can’t win. That means that the surveillance and detention authorities, operations, and institutions that emerged out of the War on Terror must be understood as weapons in the hands of a president determined to wield them against Americans."
~ Spencer Ackerman
#Trump #dicttorship
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-presidential-power-security-state/Published at
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