death penalty by firing squads is being reinstated- foreign, extra-judiciary, State killings are praised by the highest levels of the administration
- counter-powers and political opponents are threatened with legal action
- local and national bodies are actively and aggressively pursuing voter suppression tactics
- scientific bodies are silenced to cater to anti-vaxers and anti-abortion organisations
- avoidable mortality rose from 2009 to 2021, while it declined in most other high-income countries
- the judiciary and the legislature are silenced
- a former F.B.I. director is indicted for a Instagram image of seashells
- the President pushes for a personality cult (e.g., posting his picture on passports, creating an gallery of presidential portraits demeaning his predecessors and extolling himself, and broadcasting images of himself as an healing Christ),
- threatens to destroy a millenial civilization,
- and intends to build an triumphal arch that competes with Napoléon’s Arc de Triomphe
- the Vice President gives theology lessons to the Pope
- the Defence Department is renamed the Department of War
- and its secretary is invoking divine sanction for illegal, criminal, military actions, if confusing quotes from the bible with quotes from Pulp Fiction
Strikingly, Mother Jones draws a strong parallel between the grievances against King George III in the Declaration of Independence and the above…
