We all have a lot to lose if Trump wins
People often tell me that I personally wouldn’t be affected by a single moment. Donald Trump the president of the country. After all, I live in a blue city in a blue state, and I’m a married, heterosexual woman who doesn’t want to have any more children. I would not need to take a medication like mifepristone to treat a miscarriage (although I do have daughters in my family who I imagine would someday want children), and I personally do not rely on the federal government for education, because my child doesn’t go to public school.
So again, how will these affect me? The most likely answer is that, as a public-facing person, I will continue to face threats, just as much of the mainstream media has . But attacks on the media could escalate if Trump returns to power, as he does not hesitate to demonize journalists and criticize them in front of his millions of followers. And with what Trump said on television, he can target American citizens for unfavorable statements.
“I think the bigger problem is the enemy from within,” he said. speak Maria Bartiromo on Fox News on Sunday. “Sick people, extreme lunatics. And it would be handled very easily by the National Guard, or if absolutely necessary, by the military.” The “lunatics” in question could be anyone from protesters to opinion columnists—or even mainstream reporters—with whom he disagrees. Trump does is introduced calls CBS a “FAKE NEWS SCAM” that operates “completely illegal” and engages in similar behavior suggestion that ABC would lose its broadcasting license.
What would it mean to have a president who, in this way, targets what very little left of a free press? It’s hard to understand, but there is a world where Trump imitates his strongmen friends like Vladimir Putin or Viktor Orban or Kim Jong Un—all participated in the imprisonment or killing of journalists in countries with state-run media. He followed Joe McCarthy this election cycle in targeting “the enemy within,” which my family is aiming for are all too familiar with.
Some aspects of Trump Second semester plan more openly authoritarian than his immigration platform. On Friday, Trump traveled to Aurora, a suburb of Denver, Colorado, where he is staying. shopping “Operation Aurora,” a policy he said would target “any criminal illegal immigrant network operating on American soil” using the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. According to According to the Brennan Center, the law is “a wartime authority that allows the president to detain or deport natives and citizens of a hostile nation. The law allows the president to target these immigrants without a hearing and solely based on their country of birth or citizenship.” The last time the United States used the Alien Enemies Act was to put Japanese and Japanese Americans entered concentration camps during World War II.
What would internment camps actually entail in modern times? Yes, Trump talked about expulsion up to 20 million undocumented immigrants – an operation of staggering scale that Mr freely admitted will be “bloody”. (Department of Homeland Security, 2018, estimate there are 11.4 million undocumented immigrants; Pew puts the number at about 11 million in 2022.) It is impossible to imagine what it would actually be like to deport so many people; perhaps blue state governors will be strong enough to prevent the construction of deportation camps in states like California and New York. Maybe the camps will only be in red states, or maybe they will be set up on federal land, like national parks. Then there is the question of who will run these camps. For his part, Trump has considered using the National Guard. You may ask who is going to stop any of this? Can the Republican Congress stop it? Who will be the adult in the room?
