It's happening here
California may be first, but it clearly will not end here. Other states are next. Democracy is next. Democracy is under assault right before our eyes, this moment we have feared has arrived. He’s taking a wrecking ball, a wrecking ball to our founding fathers’ historic project: three coequal branches of independent government.
There are no longer any checks and balances. Congress is nowhere to be found. Speaker Johnson has completely abdicated that responsibility. The rule of law has increasingly been given way to the rule of Don.
The founding fathers didn’t live and die to see this kind of moment. It’s time for all of us to stand up.
Along with comments I seem to remember Governor Pritzker making a month or so back, by my count this is now two Governors speaking frankly and honestly about the United State’s decline into authoritarianism. I’d like to hear others in positions of power do the same.