"Why? Because Trump is in an impossible situation. He cannot allow Abrego Garcia to come home because (a) it would be capitulation to the Supreme Court, and (b) Abrego Garcia cannot be allowed to testify about what he saw and experienced at CECOT."

#Trump #Bukele #AbregoGarcia #Rubio #ElSalvador #SupremeCourt #dictator #authoritarianism
/20

"This is why Donald Trump cannot allow Kilmar Abrego Garcia to return to the United States. …

In an authoritarian regime, the opposition needs symbols and stories. Kilmar Abrego Garcia is that symbol. His abduction in front of his autistic son and imprisonment in a foreign concentration camp is that story.

All of the opposition’s energy should be focused on him."

#Trump #Bukele #AbregoGarcia #Rubio #ElSalvador #SupremeCourt #dictator #authoritarianism
/19

"This is not incarceration; it is liquidation.

Incarceration is a penal act. It is controlled by laws. There are well-understood mechanisms governing the length of terms, applications for parole, processes for release.

Liquidation is a political act. It is arbitrary, opaque, and unappealable. There are no controlling laws or processes. There is only power."

~ Jonathan V. Last

#Trump #Bukele #AbregoGarcia #Rubio #ElSalvador #SupremeCourt #dictator
/18

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/bring-him-home

This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped“….

… „In the history of state terror, the escape from law into coercion takes three forms, all of which were on display, incipiently, in the White House yesterday: the leader principle; the state of exception; and the zone of statelessness.“…
#StateTerror
#Gulag
#SupremeCourt

"This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped."

~ Timothy Snyder

#Trump #Bukele #AbregoGarcia #Rubio #ElSalvador #SupremeCourt #dictator #authoritarianism
/17

https://snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror

"The central feature in the U.S.—a cult of personality in which the erratic, chaotic, and unhinged leader runs roughshod over its people—has nothing to do with Democrats. We cannot blame the small 'd' democrats (or the large 'D' ones either) for extremism or intransigence simply for insisting their fellow countrymen recognize objective reality and respect democratic norms."

#Trump #Bukele #AbregoGarcia #Rubio #ElSalvador #SupremeCourt #dictator #authoritarianism #MediaFail #media
/16

"If you didn’t know better you would think 'polarization' descended from on high, a plague for which no one party is responsible. This deliberate obfuscation of our political situation suits the corporate media’s obsession with moral equivalence and contrived balance."

~ Jennifer Rubin

#Trump #Bukele #AbregoGarcia #Rubio #ElSalvador #SupremeCourt #dictator #authoritarianism #MediaFail #media
/15

https://contrarian.substack.com/p/words-and-phrases-we-can-do-without

"But what happened on Monday is merely the next logical step in an ongoing coup—and our failure to call it such at every opportunity allows it to fester and spread, even as tens of millions of Americans look away or are frightened by the chaos inflicted by Trump's wholesale assault on the federal government."

#Trump #Bukele #AbregoGarcia #Rubio #ElSalvador #SupremeCourt #dictator #authoritarianism #MediaFail #media
/14

"Trump 'crossed the Rubicon' long ago—but the media has somehow forgotten or minimized prior actions by Trump that qualify as a 'constitutional crises.' ...

I do not mean to minimize what happened in the Oval Office on Monday."

~ Robert B. Hubbell

#Trump #Bukele #AbregoGarcia #Rubio #ElSalvador #SupremeCourt #dictator #authoritarianism
/13

https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/call-it-by-its-name-a-coup-redux

"While it is completely outrageous and startling that Rubio as Secretary of State would enter into a contract to render people in United States to this hellhole without due process, in the sense of, if you knew that Marco Rubio had deep ties to the for-profit private prison industry in the U.S., it might not surprise you as much."

~ Nadine Smith

#Trump #Bukele #AbregoGarcia #Rubio #ElSalvador #SupremeCourt #dictator #authoritarianism
/12

https://gregolear.substack.com/p/tuesday-convo-nadine-smith-and-lisa