The Guardian view on Trump and deportation protests: the king of confected emergencies | Editorial

DOnald Trump will celebrate his birthday with A. North Korean military procession Tens of millions of dollars cost this weekend. He was accepted with the gratitude of the early gift of the demonstrations, which spread throughout the country, with more schedule on Saturday. President Immigration campaign Paid Large peaceful protests In Los Angeles. The request in the forces, above the ruler of the ruler, then distracted the situation and allowed the chaos to photograph himself as his enemy again.

Mr. Trump diverted attention from his crack with Elon Musk, stopped the “Great and Great” tax and spending law, the return of the court that was misinterpreted, and the imminent influence on the customs tariff. But the inherent in the manufactured crisis is a deeper agenda: reformulating the fear of immigrants that are not documented, and they are removed protest, thus expanding his authority. They moved to the streets to support them, It was photographed as “animals” And the “conquest and chaos in the third world”-which requires Mr. Trump to collect more power to protect America.

Gavin Newose, the California’s democratic ruler, described this as Assault on democracy. He also pointed out, “The authoritarian regimes begin to target the least able to defend themselves. But they do not stop there.” Legal procedures have been eliminated. American citizens are among those who invaded raids. Mr. Trump said that Mr. New Zom should be arrested. Stephen Miller, the White House Chief of Staff, calls the “rebellion” – despite its president, of course, Sorry for the actual rebellion From January 6 Capitol attack.

Mr. Trump tactics familiar In the broad and narrow sense. In his book on the tyranny, which was published in 2017, historian Timothy Snyder Urge To listen to “dangerous words” such as “emergency” and remind them that the “sudden catastrophe” that requires the suspension of freedoms “is the oldest trick in Hitler’s book.

Mr. Trump drew a bleak picture of the American massacre in his opening speech and described himself as a name “The only thing that stands between the American dream and the complete chaos”. Since his re -election, he declared emergency situations to move through definitions, reduce energy regulations and deport deportations. Its methods are transparent – and sometimes it was banned by the courts – but it is still effective. For his supporters, every rock was thrown, every bilo of smoke, is a new evidence of the “other” threat that transgresses his home.

However, if its methods are familiar, they also go. He moved from Foreigners hate For the frequency of fascist immigrants.blood poisoningHe depicts an enemy inside,

This indicates that Mr. Newsom and Karen Bass, the mayor of Los Angeles, are Try to help “criminal invaders”. During his first term, Mr. Trump threatened to summon the rebellion law (according to what was reported, he said that the forces must “shoot” the protesters of blacks). General Mark Millie and others are no longer present to restore it. It is concerned, warns that any protests in his convoy will face a “very heavy force”.

All those who stand against the intolerance of Mr. Trump must be fanatic and hungry of the unrestricted authority to make it clear that they are defending the law and not challenging it. The challenge of power with responsibility and consolidation of power is not only the right of citizens, but is a duty.

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