A difficult ceasefire between Israel and Iran is slightly weakened, that the United States can further get into the threat of international conflict.
But many Americans are approaching July 4 with a sense of fear, with a fearful feeling – such wars can still be on the horizon, and the risk of terrorist attacks in the United States is currently increasing due to this war.
We are a marginal country for many reasons. That is why we must be cautious not to let our fears transcend our commitment to civil rights.
“Authors almost always use emergencies, sometimes real, sometimes exaggerated, sometimes exaggerated, sometimes invented … to accumulate power,” said Steven Levitsky, a Harvard government professor.
A political expert I haven’t spoken to in the past few days said they think President Trump plans to bomb his domestic agenda – which is indeed extreme. But most people are concerned about Levitsky’s concerns that when society is concerned about external threats, authoritarians find the most fertile basis for increasing their domestic power – because often, people are willing to give up their freedom in exchange for perceived security.
UCLA law professor Hiroshi Motomura gave advice on immigration policy to Obama-despicable transition team, saying the trade-offs mean “the situation with Iran and Trump’s immigration policy is very closely intertwined.”
No place is more likely than the intersection of more straightforward international and domestic policies in California, especially Los Angeles.
Brad Jones told me that Los Angeles is a “test case” and that the Trump administration is already trying to see how far it can go. He is a professor of political science at the University of California, Davis.
“It’s a very opportunity for the presidency and they can use any opportunity to retweet their immigration agenda, and I think they’ll make the most of it,” Jones said.
We already have Marines and National Guards on the streets, under federal control, allegedly because Los Angeles is in violent chaos. Although Angelenos knows this is ridiculous, the court currently supports Trump, deploying troops on U.S. soil within his power. Much of the United States is flooded with a right-wing version of the current immigration protests, and watching a narrative of lawlessness every day seems to justify Trump’s crackdown, including arresting or detaining democratic lawmakers.
Benjamin Radd is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), an expert in Iran, and a senior fellow at the UCLA Burkel Center for International Relations. Last year, he introduced the documentary “War Game” about how military insurgency works in the United States.
Not long ago – Radd was hired by a veterans group before the National Guard deployed in Los Angeles against the will of Gov. Gavin Newsom, who refused to reveal the responsibility to eliminate what would happen if Trump brought the National Guard against the will of the governor and turned it out.
“Look, we’re here now,” Rad said.
In his simulation, pretending that Trump did not invoke the Uprising Act, a law that could further promote the president’s ability to deploy military forces within the United States.
But in the real world, Trump will worry – either because of the real threat or overdoing the threat. Rudd said this would be a “big red line”.
“I’m waiting to see if this Donald Trump will actually do that, because invoking the bill will be able to give him more emergency powers that are now blocked in court,” he said.
Rudd pointed out that Los Angeles is home to a large community of Iranian Americans, and he is a member.
Dreaming of a scene is not a huge imagination, in which case the government sees this community as a potential threat if conflicts in the Middle East continue, as Japanese Americans were once seen as a threat during World War II. Rudd said he did not see the possibility of a large-scale internship, but pointed out that the government has detained and expelled students from the Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza.
“Who gets swept away when you deal with ethically diverse metropolises like Los Angeles with complex backgrounds and characters?” he asked.
In the past few days, the government has announced the arrest of 111 undocumented Iranians in the United States.
“We’ve been saying we’re getting the worst, and we’re,” Tricia McLaughlin, DHS, said in a statement. “We won’t wait for military operations to be carried out; we take the initiative to carry out President Trump’s mission to secure homes.”
Motormara said Trump’s “the entire script of immigration describes immigrants as invaders, and immigrants as invaders.” “The military conflict with Iran allows Trump to connect any action by Iran or his agents as further evidence of invasion…even further demonstrated that he must take severe emergency measures against enemies at home and abroad.”
Levitsky said that portraying immigration as a national security emergency “the Trump administration is clearly learning how useful it is.” He noted that it is said that it is necessary to expel Venezuelans from El Salvador this year because it was described by members of the Tren de Aragua gang as an attack on the United States, although there is little evidence of such a planned invasion.
But the narrative of immigration as a foreign offensive has been plagued by it – remember that the “shithole state” was said to have purposefully cleared prisons and mental hospitals, sending murderers and rapists to the United States?
So many people accept any erosion of rights of these deportations meant in exchange for the perception of living in a safer community – and don’t mind the reality is that most of the people trapped in the prisons of El Salvador are not violent criminals.
Levitsky said the success of adopting this strategy has led the government to increasingly eager to use fear and “find ways to use language like insurgency or emergencies to release it from legal constraints.” “War is a great way to do that.”
Jones warned that even if it was just arousing concern, “there were cells or someone inside”, hoping to cause harm to us, it might make sense to achieve more rights disintegration.
While all of this sounds horrible, it is important to remember that it hasn’t happened yet and may never happen. And, if it does, it does not mean there is no claim to protect our civil rights – the people still have power.
“There is no strategy, a single slogan, a move, a group, a leader, a protest,” Levitzki said. “In fact, people have 1,000 different ways to express opposition to what is going on, and it’s important that Americans participate.”
He said part of this participation is to accept that democracy is not given, and that American democracy does not have the special power to survive.
“Frankly, that’s why we lose democracy. ” “Brazilians don’t have this problem. Koreans don’t have this problem. Germans don’t have this problem. Spanish people don’t have this problem. Chileans, Argentines don’t have this problem.
“All of these societies have collective memories of authoritarianism. All of these societies know the meaning of losing democracy,” he said. “The Americans have no idea.”
Now, our biggest threat is not Trump, nor what he might or wouldn’t do. We can’t believe that authoritarianism does spread in us, and that could happen here.
And, all that might have to be done is to deny a fearful chaser, overthrowing a democracy that once felt indestructible.
