“On Tyranny” - Chapter 4: “Take responsibility for the face of the world”
The current regime has move quickly in its attempts to establish hegemony over the country. Reading the news is increasingly an exercise in doom-scrolling and despair, but we’re not in the final moments yet. To be sure, reading about the number of lawsuits brought against the administration and its various branches, one harbors a hope, however small, that the courts will side with the those who are filing. There is not a segment of the population that is not, in some way, represented by these cases. However, that said, there are bound to be people who still support the president and the regime in seeing them as somehow divinely guided or just plain smarter than everyone else. The courts remain the most problematic link in the chain of addressing the current moment. Many are stacked with loyalists to the regime and if not, then at least, members of the judiciary sympathetic to it. Representative James Raskin (MD-D) discussed the possible impeachment of the sitting president recentl...