Trump Quashing All Resistance

[Playingmantis]

We were warned and now it's here. Trump is destroying all resistance! I have posted a few paragrahs byt you really NEED to read the fulkl article to fully appreciate the dire threat. America is going full fascist

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/30/politics/trump-punish-opponents/index.html

President Donald Trump is using the power of the federal government to intimidate or neuter potential sources of opposition to him: The legal establishment, academia and prominent cultural institutions, the media, the judiciary, the Democratic Party, Congress and independent government oversight.

The unprecedented breadth of the actions Trump and his allies inside the government have taken against his perceived political and ideological opponents in his first two months back in office is stunning – both in the president’s willingness to test the limits of his powers and the extent to which his foes have struggled to respond or even bent to his will.

Through executive orders, his bully pulpit and lieutenants in charge of the Justice Department and other Cabinet agencies, Trump’s actions are paralyzing institutions that stand as pillars of America’s independent civic society.

[Lovie777]

1. Not yet.....

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Damned right!!!

To The Bastille, Citizens!!!

[marble falls]

2. That's CNN for you: behind the times. They need a subscription to a good up to date news source.

[Magoo48]

4. What horseshit.

There’s a great deal of yet-to-bloom resistance out here.
Unfortunately, there is self quashing going on.
But Agent Orange can’t quash shit; MSM, collaborator claptrap.

[displacedvermoter]

5. And what is CNN doing to counter this is?

And what is stunning about it? They brought the Millers and Cheung and Vance on often enough to know what was coming.

Pathetic and weak.

[Orrex]

7. They've cut back to only kissing his ass 60 times an hour

[ck4829]

6. Republican resistance maybe

[jxla]

8. I read the entire CNN article you linked.

Last edited Sun Mar 30, 2025, 07:56 PM - Edit history (1)

The full title is "Trump is using the power of government to punish opponents. They’re struggling to respond."

The article details many actions the Trump administration has already taken to punish entities that have opposed, investigated or simply not supported him 100%. It goes on to explore other new or potential actions that are threats to Democrats or democacy in general (voting restrictions). Such as Executive Order 14248 of March 25, 2025 "Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections" https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2025-05524 [EO number and link added]

I am guessing that not all of the other responders have read it. Some may be reacting to to the idea that it's from CNN and is therefor wrong.

Or they may have read your subject line "Trump Quashing All Resistance" as saying that TSF's actions have successfully quashed any resistance.

I assume that the future threats are what you see as the important parts of the article for DUers to read and be aware of. Although OPs may only quote a limited number of paragraphs from an article, they do not always have to be the first ones.

"Democrats are now completely out of power in Washington, still pointing fingers about the reasons they lost to Trump and trying to find a winning message to oppose him. They say they already see warning signs that Trump’s Justice Department and Republicans in Congress could use their power to harm Democrats’ political operations."

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"Democrats are also gearing up for a fight on the rules surrounding elections after a new executive order this week attempts to dramatically reshape how US elections are carried out. Democrats and voting rights experts this week denounced the executive order as a blatant power grab."

"Trump’s order, which is likely to be challenged in court, seeks to use the withholding of federal funding and other threats of action to require documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote – which critics say could disenfranchise millions of Americans – and to demand that states refuse to accept mail-in ballots that arrive after Election Day. It also would allow federal officials to compare state voter rolls against federal databases in a search for unlawful voters, an exercise election experts say is likely to turn up false positives."

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"The tactic by Trump and his allies on Capitol Hill to target progressive groups and law firms aligned with Democrats amounts to “using the levers of government to try and permanently destroy political opposition, which is what authoritarianism looks like,” said one person close to Democratic fundraising circles."