We're Winning. The resistance strikes back
Julie Roginsky
Friends, I know it’s hard to believe, but we’re winning.
Authoritarians don’t panic when things are going their way. They consolidate. They slow down and pretend nothing is happening.
They don’t reshuffle chains of command in public, humiliate their own cabinet secretaries, or start walking back “domestic terrorist” accusations within forty-eight hours. They don’t yank sidelined hardliners back into the spotlight and insist they now report directly to the president unless something has gone badly, visibly wrong.
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Donald Trump’s sudden announcement that he is sidelining Kristi Noem and Gregory Bovino, and parachuting Tom Homan into Minneapolis to report directly to him, is not a show of strength. It’s a confession. It is the sound of an administration that thought it could brutalize a city into submission discovering that brutality has consequences — political ones, legal ones, and moral ones.
https://saltypolitics.substack.com/p/were-winning