To what exactly do you object?

A conservative friend recently asked  - let us be charitable and imagine this was a good faith inquiry - to what I objected in the current presidential administration (the autocrat, #47). He wanted to know specifically what I was resisting. In an informal conversation this is a difficult question to answer comprehensively. Given that reality, I set out to create a written list that will be curated as we go.

This was off the top of my head:

• Executive order to end birthright citizenship
  
• The January 6th Pardons
• Attacking the free press. 
• Attacking higher education
  
• Attacking law firms with petty and dangerous executive orders.
• Massive deportations- creating a culture of fear.
• Deportations with no due process.
• Defying the Supreme Court.
• Insane tax cuts. 
• Weaponizing the IRS
  
• Anything remotely related to DOGE which will probably cost us money after all the lawsuits, pain, and cruelty.
• DOGE's having compromised our personal information.
• Gutting health and human services and putting a wacko in charge which will undoubtedly lead to more measles deaths, among other things.
• Ridiculous gutting of government services to pass tax cuts for the rich.
• Cutting funding and personnel to the national parks.
• Ruining our reputation completely destroying our relationships with allies.
• All the lies he's told about Ukraine.
• Destroying our relationship with the EU.
• The obvious preparations that are now being made to undermine the next elections (3rd term)
• The Canada and Greenland business
• The support of the toxic masculinity culture.
• Attacking the LGBT community
• Pete Hegseth's complete incompetence as Secretary of Defense
• The Tariffs
• Peter Navarro's wackadoodle economic theories
  
• Defying the courts
• Preparing to cut Medicaid, Medicare, and social security

Also, from the Legal Perspective, the Youtuber "Legal Eagle" lays out the case for how the autocrat seeks to destroy the rule of law, thereby rending our entire legal system meaningless, or, better, yet, merely another tool with which to bludgeon "enemies" of the state.https://youtu.be/1leFwYSUHQ4?si=X3iY9NemqRVcwnFL

 

The Atlantic lays out a damning case against the autocrat as well, in "The End of Rule of Law in America" by By J. Michael Luttig, making the case that "The 47th president seems to wish he were king—and he is willing to destroy what is precious about this country to get what he wants."

And the NY Times lays out the case, by interviewing autocracy experts, that fascism is already here. See this recent video. entitled "We’re Experts in Fascism. We’re Leaving the U.S."

 

In a very real sense I am shocked that I have to write this piece at all, for the sheer redundancy it represents in an ocean of superior explications. As I wrote I realized there were better lists out there and here are two of them:

 The Trump Drum Slime Timeline

 A More Informal List on Reddit