Critics see deployment of the national guard as an authoritarian flex by a strongman who has relentlessly trampled norms
Trump uses LA protests to redirect dissent from policy failures to the ‘enemy within’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/08/trump-la-protests-enemy-within
9 Comments
DickFiasco@lemm.ee · 21 pts · 1y
Remember to mark your fascism bingo cards if you had "enemy within".
Fredselfish@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
Any word on how the Governor of California is responding?
floo@retrolemmy.com · 7 pts · 1y
ToastedRavioli@midwest.social · 4 pts · 1y
You cant really blame a governor for congress having abdicated their responsibility to impeach him, or the military abdicating their responsibility to depose him. Hes breaking the law, and no one is stopping it who can. The hell is Newsome supposed to do?
At this point Trump could literally order him arrested and there is no clarity as to whether anyone would stop it
FlexibleToast@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
He was already using that phrase during is campaign. That spot should have been marked a long time ago.
TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com · 20 pts · 1y
Boy
LoyalistRepublicans only chance to hold on to power seems like lying, ignoring the body politic, taxing without much representation, enslavement, armed bullying and murder.TheTechnician27@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y
Any Republican elected after 1968 can't govern. All they know is enslavement, ignore they body politic, infight, be armed bullies, tax without representation, and lie.
floo@retrolemmy.com · 2 pts · 1y
decapitae@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 1y
The 'enemy within' seems to have revealed itself by using military action against US citizens. Someone feels empowered by people getting away with evil acts on their bff list of villianous idols: Rolly-Polly-Kim-the-murderer, Gold-Kissin'-OG&E-killer-Putah, Bippity-the-ethnic-cleanser.
Cheetoh stain wants in on the action sooo dang bad.
Ledericas@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 1y
of course the DOGE CUTS, THE TARIFFS still remained unresolved, the BBB. his epstein involvement, which got a bunch of republicans both politicians and actors all riled dup.
charade_you_are@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1y
The enemy within is obviously people who fucking hate the mango Mussolini and his bootlickers