Something new has entered America’s consciousness: fear of the nation.
The Red Scary (the first one followed the Russian Revolution and World War I, and the second scared after the outbreak of the Second World War and the Cold War, the state has played such an active role in political intervention.
The state under Donald Trump has a special interest in political speech and action, selecting lawyers and law firms, university and student activists, journalists and their employers. Undocumented certainly means that we live in fear day and night.
The fear of the nation has entered a political process.
Trump’s former president had an enemy. Nixon was famous for his “list,” but this was primarily a journalist. His political delusions have always been there, and it finally defeated him in the Watergate scandal.
Even John Kennedy, who had the soft spot on the fourth estate, stolen the newspaper from the White House for a while, stolen the newspaper at the New York Herald Tribune.
Lyndon Johnson played games and manipulated the Congress to reward his allies and punish his enemies. For reporters, it was an endless reward and nursing game, achieved primarily with information given or withheld.
The Trump administration does not stick to the desire to eradicate what it sees as the enemy of the nation and those who oppose it. This includes the judicial system and all of its components. A judge, a law firm, and advocates for those who have disapproved it. Just as individual lawyers defend their administration’s opponents, the individual is an e-music representation that has been “invested” and persecuted in this climate.
If you are investigated, you will face the full power of the state and its institutions. If you can find a height lawyer to protect you, you will likely be out of work and ruined without causing fraud.
One powerful law firm, Paul and Weiss, faced with the loss of a massive government contract, bowed to Trump. It was a bad day for judicial independence.
The courts and individual judges are under attack and are threatened by bluff each despite the state trying to avoid ruling.
Others will be careful with threats and practice laws when issues arise. The price is known. They are punished and punished by the loss of government jobs, fear of investigation, the decline and public humiliation of accusations.
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The state boots are placed on the neck of the university.
If you allow free speech that doesn’t match the government’s constitutional definition of rights, the boots will fall, as did in Colombia.
Embarrassingly, Columbia built the cave to try and save $400 million in research funds. The speech on that campus is currently surrounded. What’s worse, the nation may be encouraged by its success.
Education Secretary Linda McMahon has promised that with or without the Department of Education, the administration chases the university and that what they allow, and what they teach, as defined by the state, is anti-Semitic, or if they practice diversity, equality and inclusion.
Note that another university, Georgetown, is holding back the pressure. Bravo!
At the White House, Press Director Caroline Leavbit decided to take over the White House Correspondents Association and decide who will cover the president in a pool of reporters.
Travelling with the President is essential. That’s how reporters can get to know the CEO up close. Pool reports from MAGA bloggers don’t cut it.
Trump threatened to sue the media outlet. If they are small and poor, like most new ones, they cannot withstand the cost of protecting themselves. Disney-owned ABC fell into Trump despite its employees hoping to settle in court. The profits of the companies have decided accommodation with the state.
They will deal with what they have and they will. See what happens in Trump’s $20 billion lawsuit against CBS’ “60 minutes.” The truth is clear. The result may be the tip of the hat for Trump.
Fear is less repeated. The state is more harmful and ruthless than deportation of immigrants without legitimate proceedings, accusations, or evidence. Ice says you are guilty and you go. A man wearing a mask doubles you, handcuffs behind your back and take you to a prison in El Salvador.
The horror arrives in America and can be felt throughout the whole time, in the marble halls of a huge law firm, newsrooms and executive offices, where parents are dragged away by black men, wearing balaclavas, perhaps even crying for the purposes of extra intimidation.
Llewellyn King is the executive producer and host of PBS’s “The White House Chronicle.” He wrote this for Insidesources.com.