Robert Reich: Warning: Trump's Rolling Coup Is Already Underway

[FakeNoose]

Link: https://robertreich.substack.com/p/warning-trumps-rolling-coup-is-underway

I received the following from Richard Gephardt, who represented Missouri in the United States House and Senate from 1977 to 2005 and served as House Democratic Leader from 1989 to 2003, and Tim Wirth, who served in the U.S. House and Senate from Colorado from 1975 to 2003 and as the first U.S. Secretary of State for Global Affairs.

I have worked with both and know them quite well. Neither is an alarmist, but they did want me to help spread this alarm. Hence, I’m sharing with you what they wrote to me. (Research is from Keep Our Republic, a nonpartisan NGO focused on fair elections.)

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Between us we have served for seven decades, mostly in elected federal office, through Watergate, the post-Vietnam anti-war demonstrations, years of civil rights marches, Iran-Contra, debates over voting rights, the post-9/11 surveillance debates, two impeachments. We are writing today because we are watching something different from any of these, and because most Americans, including most of our friends in both parties, do not see the big picture.

Many may recognize and be concerned about individual actions or decisions taken by the administration but few have taken a step back and connect the dots. The “rolling coup” is much more than one development, one decision or a single day.

On September 25, 2025, President [Trump] signed a directive called a National Presidential Security Memorandum known as NPSM-7 (titled ‘Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence’).

Its language designates as targets of federal counterterrorism authorities Americans whose sponsors are labeled “anti-American”, “ anti-capitalist”, “ anti-Christian” or “hostile to traditional American views on family, religion and morality.”

No statute authorizes the federal government to treat protected political speech as terrorism; NPSM-7 does it anyway. It tasked the FBI, the IRS and the Treasury Department with tracking the funding sources and supporters of organizations suspected of directly or indirectly facilitating political unrest, with no reference to the First Amendment.

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Please read the rest on Robert Reich's substack (OP link.)

This is very scary stuff, and Richard Gephardt and Tim Wirth are not whistling Dixie!

[GiqueCee]

1. As I've said before...

... Trump is the worst thing to happen to this country since the Civil War, and he's a willing instrument in this coup by the architects of Project 2025. These people are traitors, even by the narrow standards in the Constitution. The Rosenbergs were executed for less than this. Some have said, "OH! But they committed espionage!" Well, they are splitting a pretty fine frog hair, if you ask me. Espionage IS treason, for fuck's sake! And Russell Vought is guilty of all of it, as are those scumbags in the Heritage Foundation that enabled him. Take them down, if not out altogether.

[Easterncedar]

2. I was going to post this. Thanks for paying attention

This stuff is scary AF, and all the joking and schadenfreude about the clown's pratfalls are effective distraction from what's happening in the dark behind the stage.

[Solly Mack]

3. K&R

[malaise]

4. This is very important

It is the truth

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