Not once the madness has passed. It's always a slippery slope, and the current madness dismantling the system of due process is simply more brazen an attempt. Unless those responsible for the dismantling are ousted from power and replaced the madness will not pass. Preferably they will also be punished for the harm they've done.
The USA has always not been nearly as democratic as it likes to espouse, but during and following the demand for and extension of the civil rights the privileged classes held to those not privileged it seemed to be on the right track towards becoming what it has always promised to be.
Trump and the people that facilitate his behaviour and policies are simply an indication that as much as things have changed and improved, across much of the USA it hasn't. Worse, those who do not desire improvement are willing and eager to use violence to ensure things remain static even as the public rightly demands better. I would not be too surprised if what we will see for the next decade or so is 'Civil Rights Era USA part 2', with protests, marches, violence and murders in the streets and at least some of that perpetrated by the government.
The most worrisome bit of it however is that during the 1960's the national government if not eager to support the causes of the protesters found it hard to say that the causes themselves were wrong, but right now the national government is eager to suppress the unrest by violent means no matter the cost to the public. Because I've not heard anything from the Republican leadership or the White House about peaceful overtures to the protesters or initiatives to address the very real problems the protests seek to be addressed. Not even the most milquetoast and uncommitted statements about how the policing doctrine might need some revision.
Oh, and regarding Portland?
Turns out, judges have an opinion on state actors harming journalists exercising the 1st Amendment of the Constitution of the United States.
The USA has always not been nearly as democratic as it likes to espouse, but during and following the demand for and extension of the civil rights the privileged classes held to those not privileged it seemed to be on the right track towards becoming what it has always promised to be.
Trump and the people that facilitate his behaviour and policies are simply an indication that as much as things have changed and improved, across much of the USA it hasn't. Worse, those who do not desire improvement are willing and eager to use violence to ensure things remain static even as the public rightly demands better. I would not be too surprised if what we will see for the next decade or so is 'Civil Rights Era USA part 2', with protests, marches, violence and murders in the streets and at least some of that perpetrated by the government.
The most worrisome bit of it however is that during the 1960's the national government if not eager to support the causes of the protesters found it hard to say that the causes themselves were wrong, but right now the national government is eager to suppress the unrest by violent means no matter the cost to the public. Because I've not heard anything from the Republican leadership or the White House about peaceful overtures to the protesters or initiatives to address the very real problems the protests seek to be addressed. Not even the most milquetoast and uncommitted statements about how the policing doctrine might need some revision.
Oh, and regarding Portland?
Turns out, judges have an opinion on state actors harming journalists exercising the 1st Amendment of the Constitution of the United States.