Yesterday Donald Trump swore an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States of America.
On the same day he issued an executive order to deny citizenship rights to children born in America if their parents weren’t legally resident in the US. This is a direct violation of Section 1 of the 14th Amendment, which has been part of the Constitution for more than 156 years. That man could not even go for one day without breaking the law and his oath of office!
America voted for a felon, so that’s what they got. He was never held responsible for any of the crimes he committed before, during and after his first term.
Having supported an insurrection against the United States by sending a violent mob to the Capitol on January 6, 2021, after having sworn on January 20, 2017 to uphold the Constitution, Trump should have been held ineligible to run for office again under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, but this was never enforced. He should never even have been on the ballot.
Now Trump is allied with a billionaire oligarchy who control social media and own hundreds of billions of dollars that they can freely use to change the outcome of elections. Their representatives sat in the front row at his inauguration, before the cabinet. They run Twitter/X, Threads, Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp. Do not trust them. Do not depend on them. They are not your friends!
Americans may yet reclaim their constitutional republic some day. It won’t be easy. My advice is to look at the examples of Hungary, Poland and Turkey, where people have been struggling against autocrats that had been elected into office but then changed all the rules to try and stay on forever. Trump will try the same illiberal playbook. In the case of Poland, the people managed to win back liberal democracy while the struggle in Hungary and Turkey still continues.
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