I have kept saying, since Trump was re-elected, that the likelihood was that the end of the rule of law in the USA was nigh. He is a man who has no desire to be told what to do by a judge, as he has proved time and again with his contempt for the legal system.
Now this seems to have been confirmed. As the Guardian has reported this afternoon:
Republican House speaker Mike Johnson suggested potentially defunding, restructuring or eliminating US federal courts as a means of pushing back against judicial decisions that have challenged Donald Trump's policies.
Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Johnson, a former constitutional attorney, raised the prospect of congressional intervention in the court system.
“We do have the authority over the federal courts, as you know. We can eliminate an entire district court,” Johnson said.
I have already suggested that Trump's grand plan is to end the US federal government - and so, in effect, the USA. It appears Mike Johnson is now endorsing the plan, and the end of US democracy.
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I wouldn’t now how to read the American public to be honest, but all I can do is keep faith in that they seem a little more aware of their rights than the average cap doffing Englishman taught deference to their social betters.
I hope……………….
I’m sure the few Americans I know are at the stage of being unable to contain their fury at the trumpian destruction. But where are those ex-presidents that Richard urged, a few weeks ago, to jointly raise their voices against this grotesquery?
Silence is complicity.
I agree
Unfortunately, the American public have a few things that we don’t have which are worse than cap doffing.
Firstly, they’ve got the MAGA cult. Tens of millions of people (most of them a bit hard of thinking) for whom Trump and his flunkies can do no wrong and, if they do, it’s the fault of the Libtards in any case.
Secondly, they also have deeply Conservative Christian fundamentalists who have installed themselves into the leadership of the Republicans at both state and national level in recent decades and there will always be a bit of Old Testament nonsense to support whichever appalling policy they want to enact next. These folk have somehow persuaded themselves that Jesus would be on the side of the lying, crooked narcissistic orange gibbon in the Oval Office. I have a feeling they are a touch wrong in their appraisal of what Jesus might want.
There is an intersection these two groups, of course.
Finally, they have an oligarchy which controls pretty much every aspect of the traditional media and social media with an iron fist. They like money and power and aren’t going to let anything like the truth get in the way of what they they want, ever.
Trump’s regime is moving even more quickly than I anticipated and it is already clear that nobody in Congress is going to raise a finger to do anything about it. Craven or cynical, the lot of them, one or two notable exceptions aside. By this point it’s pretty much a certainty that they are going to become an outright fascist regime at some point and the populace will have no chance of overthrowing them, even if they wanted to.
Dark times. Our only hope is for the rest of the west to come together and form an alliance with similarly-minded countries such as the Asian technological power houses (China excepted, of course) to form an alliance which makes the Americans less relevant.
Re Mariner’s 2nd last para: It only took the Nazis 9 months to dismember Germany in 1933 and impose absolute power. It’s already clear that that’s definitely the direction of travel in the USA and the impact on world peace will be even greater with weapons considerably more lethal and comms much more sophisticated in today’s world. Climate change was already causing me to fear for kids and grandchildren and now those fears are hugely increased thanks to the orange nut job and his deranged followers.
Agreed
Well, if that happens, I would suspect that the stock market crashes and US treasury yields soar. It would be a stock and bond bear market. One of the main reasons to invest in the United States is for the rule of law.
Putler will be wetting himself with laughter, Ruzzias revenge & the USA & the groomed Trumpists walked right into it. I predict breakup.
I have been arguing with my Commission/Institutional contacts that it is now time the EU pulled back from all contact with any & all US institutions.
They are, contaminated, in a range of ways. The Guardian was interesting today with this article (I have the book by the person who wrote the article “We Were Never Woke” – well worth a read). Even academia is sliding down the Mango shithole (sorry foe that – can’t express it another way).
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/26/universities-columbia-trump
Thanks
Today warnings in Canada’s major newspaper about those thinking of going across the US border… to maybe think twice about it especially if they think they may have the minutest irregularity in their paperwork in past or present. Also To make sure their phones are cleared of anything that might contradict US foreign policy that I am interpreting as sympathy for Palestinians. Several instances of those trying to cross the border for work/holiday being detained for days. So much for the land of the brave and free.
I will not go until.Trump and his cohort are gone
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