As pointed out countless times, most of Trump's actions, even the most brutal, have solid American ancestry:
The threat of official violence is constant. Only now, the menace is extending beyond black and brown residents, to anyone who dares to decry or document the administration’s overreach. In short, the protective factor of white privilege is collapsing in the face of Trump’s fascism.
(https://contrarian.substack.com/p/trumps-comply-or-die-policing-isnt?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true)
What is new is not the 'what', but the 'to whom': The recent deaths (Jan. 2026) in Minnesota have made clear to many who think of themselves as insiders, to whom the protection of American law applies more or less as written, that their president considers them outsiders and so without this protection. Officially tolerated - if not more more than tolerated - killing of various especially ethnic minorities is a very traditional part of American public life, but the Trump government has the same tolerance for the killing of white Americans who do no more than politically oppose them. Now it seems that the penny has dropped for many ordinary white Americans.
By contrast, very rich Americans seem as yet unconcerned. But how long before a corrupt and grasping administration, once it has established the right to treat previously insider groups as outsiders if it wishes, decides to shake some of the ultra-wealthy down seriously?
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