I truly appreciate your positive, activist call to to action. I also loved Ezra Klein’s rousing Don’t Believe Him audio essay (I listened to it three times.) Connecticut senator Chris Murphy, AOC, and Bernie have also been communicating well on social media, encouraging people to take action and not be intimidated.
I worry that while the long list of lawsuits are important, relying on the courts may be insufficient. The grafting of Musk and the tech oligarchs on to the existing MAGA movement is creating a true climate of fear. Not of Brown Shirts, as we might have previously imagined, but of the loss of livelihoods. Threats of losing a job if you speak up, of mass firings, and the withdrawal of federal funds to institutions in the nonprofit sector are gaining momentum and are extremely intimidating. This type of fear is not something we’ve seen in this country since McCarthyism.
In the medium term It’s possible that Trump’s circus will be too disorganized to get much done legally. We just have to hope we’re still a nation of laws.
Thank you so much, Jay. Your rational, researched, thoughtful, analytical essays help me stay sane (and trying not to panic, but to get active). Thank you. Thank you.
I'm a retired federal government statistician, not a lawyer. I read in the New York Times this morning that the Trump Administration failed to comply with a federal judge's order to unfreeze billions of dollars in federal grants. If Trump did this once, he'll do it again. What can the legal system do to stop him? The supreme court said he can't be held responsible for any crime while in office.
I truly appreciate your positive, activist call to to action. I also loved Ezra Klein’s rousing Don’t Believe Him audio essay (I listened to it three times.) Connecticut senator Chris Murphy, AOC, and Bernie have also been communicating well on social media, encouraging people to take action and not be intimidated.
I worry that while the long list of lawsuits are important, relying on the courts may be insufficient. The grafting of Musk and the tech oligarchs on to the existing MAGA movement is creating a true climate of fear. Not of Brown Shirts, as we might have previously imagined, but of the loss of livelihoods. Threats of losing a job if you speak up, of mass firings, and the withdrawal of federal funds to institutions in the nonprofit sector are gaining momentum and are extremely intimidating. This type of fear is not something we’ve seen in this country since McCarthyism.
In the medium term It’s possible that Trump’s circus will be too disorganized to get much done legally. We just have to hope we’re still a nation of laws.
Thank you so much, Jay. Your rational, researched, thoughtful, analytical essays help me stay sane (and trying not to panic, but to get active). Thank you. Thank you.
I'm a retired federal government statistician, not a lawyer. I read in the New York Times this morning that the Trump Administration failed to comply with a federal judge's order to unfreeze billions of dollars in federal grants. If Trump did this once, he'll do it again. What can the legal system do to stop him? The supreme court said he can't be held responsible for any crime while in office.