The fascist moment is here: Have mainstream liberals heard the alarm go off?

This is it LargelyI would like to say: This is the moment we have long been laminated – or, from another point of view, at the moment we are waiting for all. If you think you know what I mean “this” being “that”, you are probably right. This is the moment when the clichés are expelled and made it look authentic, and it is a moment “Which side are you?” Or “What did you do in the war, Dad?” To stop sound, like the antique speech from the post -war modramrama.

Of course, this moment was more than a long and introductory process, and the assumption that “IT” cannot happen here slowly and gradually gradually, to some extent the way Hannibal carries (“The Late, Great Hannibal Lecter”, like President Trump He loves to say) keeps you alive and spreads on happy pills while eating your mind. However, though: Wasn’t there anything like a moment for you? There was definitely for me.

The issue of those who understood the nature of the moment, and from no, was dramatically comfortable over the past week or so – and a Hudi boy, there were some surprises. This is a great circular, but it is irresistible: we see a truly unusual transformation, something like the main current awakening Conservatives Along with the continued surrender from the main current Liberals.

Yes, I am talking, for example, about the boundary writer in the New York Times David Brooks The call to take collective measures against the Trump system and quote from the “Communist Statement”, to a large extent not ally. I don’t think anyone has it on the main media Pingo card. I am also talking about the governor of Michigan. Grechen passes literally Hide her face Among the photographers in the Oval Office, and about California Gavin New No.Dramatic heel bend, which included this week describing a case Kilmar Abrago GarciaWho was accidentally deported to El Salvador, as “Today’s distraction“Compared to really important things, such as whether Trump’s tariff policy is” responsible for the markets. ”

But before “well, in fact” about any of these things, let’s go back to the individual moment that struck me hard – and was affected by many other people in the same way – because I think it explains a much larger problem. He was This videoThe first shot of a person’s window on the outskirts of Boston shows a group of persuasive people with clear clothes that seize a young woman from the street and drive her away in an unlimited car. To be more specific, the video was the same and what happened – and it did not happen – after the world saw it.

The name of that woman is Rümeysa öztürk. It is a 30 -year -old Turkish citizen who has lived in the United States at least over the past few years of the student visa. According to its personal file, LinkedIn (is now deleted), she is a former Volibright researcher who holds a master’s degree from Columbia University of Teachers College. She, or if, is a doctorate candidate in the study of children and human development at the University of Tafs. It was not accused of any crime. The government says it has canceled a visa that it supported because it supports Hamas, but it has not provided any evidence behind an editorial that she participated in (with three other students) in the tuffs students last year. Since her arrest, although this word appears to be an expression, it has been detained in ice detention centers in four different states.

Friday, federal judge I ordered öztürk back From Louisiana to Vermont, where she was detained when her lawyers submitted a petition to appear on the demand demanding her release. Judge William K. Sessions III, her arrest and detention, “sparked major constitutional concerns.” (Yes, no S ** T, Sherlock.) This ruling represents a procedural victory, and begins to prove some similarities in legal procedures in this case – but you can feel the drain of energy from conversation when we start talking about this as a legal case, right? This is how it works.

A woman literally disappeared from a public street by government agents without a uniform, and there is no official vehicle and there is no clear identity Because of its political views. No one pretends that there is any other reason. But this fact has almost disappeared in an indisputable quagmire of procedural questions, judicial conflicts and the supposed contextual ambiguity, while the person concerned remains detained by ice in the unlimited future.

People generally use “Kafkaesque” as an exaggerated metaphor, perhaps to describe the crossbar you get from an insurance company or a particularly strict trip to DMV. But it is no longer: what happened, and still happens, for öztürk and Abrego Garcia, however, many other people were washed away in the ice Golgis, which is the situation described in Franz Kafka almost.Trial“In any neglect, the inconceivation and legitimacy that cannot be penetrated is merely a harsh damage. Trump administration makes Kafka great again.

Of course, the judge’s ruling will be resumed in a higher court by some of the facts of the Trump regime, and then the decision of that court regarding this appeal will be resumed. Öztürk has a bail listening session scheduled for May 9, and a hearing on the Corpus Habeas petition scheduled for May 22, more than a month from now. It is imagined that one or one of these measures will lead to their release, but they are likely to go out for months, or perhaps years, without any clear solution. This is a feature of our new fascist system, and certainly not a mistake.

What he has no Since we saw that öztürk video is anything close to admitting that the policy that led to its kidnapping, or the way that was made, was a legal, moral or political mistake. Quite the opposite: Of course, the fate of this individual must be important to all of us, but what is happening in the end to Rümeysa öztürk, besides that, along with this point. The important point, in fact, has been clarified: Donald Trump’s agents are completely free to remove people from society on any excuse they love, or nothing at all. Whether they can do this to American citizens as well as non -citizens remains a question that has not been answered. No one made any serious effort to stop them, and they did not face any consequences that exceeded their finger from the judges and lectures from (important) the media.

To be completely fair, I do not think that the scope of responses to what is happening now in America has a great relationship with ideology, in the natural sense. It comes to whether you actually believe in something – and a boy, boy, wheat has been separated from peel in this regard.

It was certain that it was useful to face David Brooks’s invitation to weapons in the same week as another shareholder, Brett Stevens -A strong distributor of the right-wing traditional wisdom of the Israeli-Trump administration as “drowned” in the policies called “reckless, stupid, terrible, non-American, hateful and bad.” It was also this week Bill ChristolOnet (Rever New Right “, called for the cancellation of ICE.

These three men are not identical or switched, but they are all non -conservative or unbians of Maga who tell you that they believe in “liberal democracy”, which means more or less organized in private property rights and building a political coalition. I may conclude that their views on democracy are somewhere between naive and naive, but let’s give them credit: they spoke strongly against a system that offered what is proud of it, including what is called the principles of the province.

When we see Democrats like news and Whitmer – and Amy Cluboshr and John Vitman and Chuck ShomerThe list-the triangle themselves in forgetting and semi-nonsense before the Trump era at the moment when the regime clarified the fascism of its intentions and the American people and the world began to retreat, and we see that the people who absorb them in the network tube from RealPolitik for a long time, like all addiction, have lost to continue with daily legacies. They do not believe in anything except for political survival, and they believe that, depends on the opponent’s stock version, a group of focus from the psychology of voters who are sold by them by expensive consultants. Any principles that go beyond these are atrophy in secret.

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NEWSOM and Whitmer hopes to become president in 2029, and they put their bets on a special understanding of reality, starting with the hypothesis that there is no fascist moment. The second presidency, Trump, in this opinion, will be a particularly ugly form of regular policy, then the pendulum will be familiar. To win the upcoming elections, they need to determine a “moderate” space in the middle of the road between the neighboring world and the progressive spots that they believe destroyed the Democrats last year.

Similar, Democratic poll, Natalie Jackson He protested that Abugo Garcia made a “bad child” for the Trump fighting issue because the Republicans have dug some fragmented and unconvincing dirt, and the journalist Matt YGLESIAS He answered that “adhering to the rights of procedures due to people who submit asylum claims” has become a political problem. Again, there are no noticeable principles at work, only fake discussions about what they believe that the collective mind of the public will think, based on the survey numbers last week.

Jackson eventually deleted her book X on Abrego Garcia, through the Senator Chris Van Holin’s trip to El Salvador to visit him. The lesson here is not complicated: Holin revolves around many liberal white democrats, and anyone can be. But he believes in something – in moderate ideas about democracy, undoubtedly – and he understands what time is.