The Illinois governor pointed out that eight of the 10 states with the highest homicide rates are led by Republicans.The New York TimesBy Julie BosmanAug. 25, 2025Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois has a message for President Trump: Keep the military out of Chicago.Mr. Pritzker, a Democrat, stood alongside the Chicago River on Monday afternoon, flanked by Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago, pastors, business leaders and community organizers, to push back on Mr. Trump’s offhand declaration that he would send the military into the city, as he had done in Los Angeles and Washington.“Calling the military into a U.S. city to invade our streets and neighborhoods and disrupt the lives of everyday people is an extraordinary action, and it should require extraordinary justification,” Mr. Pritzker said.[...]Mr. Pritzker added that eight of the 10 states with the highest homicide rates were led by Republicans.Responding to his remarks, Abigail Jackson, a spokeswoman for the White House, wrote in an email: “If these Democrats spent half as much time addressing crime in their cities as they did going on cable news to complain about President Trump, their residents would be a lot safer.”
This all bull, this is the way all fascists begin... The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace writes,
Trump’s coddling of Putin was no surprise. The president’s envy of autocrats and own authoritarian instincts are well established. Unlike his predecessors, who championed an American-led “free world,” Trump is content with a world in chains. Accordingly, he has discarded America’s historic support for democracy abroad and dismantled the infrastructure and funding created to promote it.
Down the yellow Brick Road to authoritarianism is paved in greed.
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