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title: "Link: America Tips Into Fascism"
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slug: america-tips-into-fascism
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date: 2025-08-25T22:31:15-06:00
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tags:
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- Politics
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- USA
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---
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From Garrett Graff at [Doomsday Scenario][post]:
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> Just months short of the nation’s 250th birthday, Donald Trump is close to
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> batting a thousand at speed-running the very abuses of power that led to the
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> Founders to write the Declaration of Independence in the first place. [Does
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> any of this sound familiar][l1]:
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>
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> * He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the
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> public good.
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> * For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and
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> altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments
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> * He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent
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> of our legislatures.
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> * He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of
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> Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
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> * He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to
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> Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
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> * He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and
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> waging War against us.
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> * For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world
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> * For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent
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> * For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury
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> * For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
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[post]: https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-tips-into-fascism-f51000e08e03254d
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[l1]: https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
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