The thing about fascism is that you don’t actually have to be guilty of the things they claim because they’ll just deport you or jail you regardless.
Europeans are getting interrogated in US airport detention rooms over liking tweets critical of Trump. If they choose to make an example of you, they will, and it doesn’t matter if your visa or green card was in perfect order.
They’re supported by an endless supply of online bootlickers who will believe and parrot any justification given. “Of course we sent this Czech citizen to El Salvador in chains, look at his middle name!”
> Europeans are getting interrogated in US airport detention rooms over liking tweets critical of Trump
Oh no, they’re being asked about tweets? Is that worse than the UK arresting its citizens in the middle of the night over their tweets? Or threatening to extradite Americans over their tweets? Thank god America has Europe to look to as a bastion of liberal democracy.
Oh no, what-about-ism. The US was known for having incredibly liberal free speech laws, not only on the books but in actual, honest-to-goodness, practice.
Well, that's gone, and what's worse, so is the reputation. The rule of law can be restored tomorrow. The perception of rule of law, will take generations to fix, if ever.
That's not what whataboutism is. Bringing whataboutism here is just pure deflection. A European being concerned about getting arrested for his tweets in the US makes just as much sense as an American not wanting to go to Europe because of gun violence in Europe.
Perhaps you’re not American and unfamiliar with the situation here, but Trump’s election was largely a reaction against the Democratic Party’s abandonment of the rule of law.
This played out at the local level, with progressive district attorneys and progressive judges refusing to prosecute or sentence criminals. And at the national level with the Biden administration failing to enforce a sensible border policy, against the wishes of the majority of Americans.
Is Trump going too far in the opposite direction? Maybe, but the prior administration did far more to destroy the perception of the rule of law than Trump has so far.
Going too far in the opposite direction? Even if what you are saying is true, I don't think "breaking the law" and "breaking the law even more" are opposite directions.
It’s interesting because many Europeans would be safer from fascist government overreach in the U.S. than they presently are in Europe, despite what you saw on MSNBC.
Europeans are getting interrogated in US airport detention rooms over liking tweets critical of Trump. If they choose to make an example of you, they will, and it doesn’t matter if your visa or green card was in perfect order.
They’re supported by an endless supply of online bootlickers who will believe and parrot any justification given. “Of course we sent this Czech citizen to El Salvador in chains, look at his middle name!”