Michael Cohen - Constitution Meets Kevlar--What Could Go Wrong?
Let me tell you something, straight up: When the government sends in the troops not to defend the nation but to silence its own people, we’re not just flirting with fascism. We’re buying it dinner, sending flowers, and inviting it to move in. And that, my Substack community, is exactly where we are right now in Trump’s America 2.0. Yesterday, 2,000 National Guard troops were dispatched to Los Angeles—not to provide disaster relief or support wildfire containment, but to suppress protests. Protests, mind you, against the very agencies ripping families apart and deporting people in the dead of night. Against ICE raids that are snatching people from their homes, from hospitals, from houses of worship, even from school pick-up lines.
This isn’t law and order. This is state-sponsored trauma.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again louder for the cult in the back: protest is not only legal in America, it’s sacred. It’s as American as baseball, bad coffee, and political corruption. From the Boston Tea Party to Black Lives Matter, protest has always been the pressure valve of a democracy under strain. But here comes President Trump, stomping through the Constitution in steel-toe boots, declaring protest to be the enemy of the state.
And what set him off this time? Peaceful protesters in Los Angeles and New York City who dared to speak up against the inhumane deportations and raids carried out by ICE. I watched as mothers cried in the streets, students linked arms in front of buses, and clergy begged officers to remember their own humanity. In return? Tear gas, rubber bullets, and arrests. As if shouting “let them stay” is a threat to national security.
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