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Americans need to push back on Trump’s authoritarianism

Posted 1/22/26

Soooo!  Let me get this straight (based on historical fact!). Trump incites an insurrection with hundreds of his “Proud Boyz, et. al.” storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, …

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Americans need to push back on Trump’s authoritarianism

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Soooo!  Let me get this straight (based on historical fact!). Trump incites an insurrection with hundreds of his “Proud Boyz, et. al.” storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, with the intent of doing bodily harm and kidnapping elected U.S. legislators, ultimately with the intent of overturning a fair and legal election.   
When Trump takes office again, after an election win in January 2025, he pardons the “insurrectionists” who had been afforded constitutionally mandatory fair rule-of-law trials and deemed to be guilty by their peers.   
Many of those insurrectionists, now convicted felons, are then hired by ICE, with nearly zero police training in most cases, to occupy Democratic cities, to create chaos, killing and maiming at will anyone who they deem “fair game” to arrest without valid warrants.  The ICE thugs are then granted blanket immunity after killing/shooting constitutionally legitimate observers and protesters.
Trump predictably takes divergent interpretations of “protesting” in the USA, Iran, and Venezuela, encouraging and protecting protesters in Iran, while brutally suppressing constitutionally legal protests in the United States, in Democratic cities.
WHEN will a supermajority of Americans finally reason with themselves and realize that Trump is an out-of-control, delusional danger to our country along with his handlers in the White House, who of course include his entire cabinet (Rubio, Bondi, Hegseth, Noem, Kennedy, to name a few), and the lapdog Republican leadership in Congress (Johnson, Emmer, Thune, Barrasso, to name a few)?
The incredibly dangerous position in which the current leadership has placed our country will not be corrected simply by the removal (impeachment) of Trump and the others named above, but by a national majority outcry against them, including at the ballot box in November this year.  We need to elect moderates, both Republican and Democrat, who will work together to repair the damage that this president has ravaged upon the USA, domestically and internationally, in just the past 12 months.  
Kudos to Gov. Walz who, contrary to that which the radical right is claiming, has advised Minnesota citizens to protest peacefully and to not take the bait to physically confront ICE agents. The governor knows, and most thinking citizens know, that the intent of the ICE surge is to antagonize until Trump feels he has the justification to illegally invoke the 1807 Insurrection Act and deploy federal troops to suppress opposition. By doing so, he would likely suspend the 2026 mid-term elections, to complete his authoritarian grab for power already underway.
I beg you, citizens of Minnesota and the entire USA, join the peaceful protests now and help take back our country! Reasonable, peaceful, and nationwide protest will be a powerful show of force and will hopefully keep the abuses of power now underway, at bay.
Orlyn Kringstad
Tower