Source: In These Times
by Naomi Braine
“Trump 2.0 began, as promised, with an onslaught of dictatorial executive orders (initiating massive deportation sweeps, revoking temporary protected status for hundreds of thousands of immigrants, threatening to rescind birthright citizenship and withdrawing federal recognition of trans people) immediately followed by across-the-board attacks on the core structures of the federal government. The dizzying pace confounds journalism as well as sanity; by the time this is published, Elon Musk may have gained (likely illegal) access to still more government systems and Trump may have issued and walked back yet more threats. Already, the pardons of Jan. 6 rioters (including leaders of two far-right organizations who had been serving lengthy prison sentences) have receded from headlines amid ever more breaking news of systemic spending freezes, the firing or coerced retirement of countless government workers and a wholesale assault on the national scientific infrastructure, including the extensive removal of public data from government websites.” (02/26/25)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/trump-latin-america-models-bukele-milei-bolsonaro