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The Trump Administration's Plan to Crush Dissent (w/ Tom Joscelyn)

2025-10-12 News & Politics
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Trump Administration's Attack on Dissent and Erosion of Legal Norms

Analyze the administration's escalating authoritarian measures, including mass deportation plans and surveillance overreach, and understand why legal norms are actively being dismantled.

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  • Anticipate that establishing a mass deportation regime serves as the fastest route toward an authoritarian state.
  • Identify the administration's attempt to repurpose foreign counter-terrorism architecture against domestic dissent.
  • Note the documented breakdown of the traditional DOJ/White House wall, with the President publicly claiming status as chief law enforcement officer.
  • The discussion highlights the danger of weaponizing federal investigation powers based on protected speech (e.g., critiques of Christianity, anti-Americanism).
  • This analysis frames the administration's actions, from aggressive raids to pardoning January 6 participants, as a systematic effort to remove governmental guardrails.

This conversation between Bill Kristol and Tom Joscelyn assesses the acute dangers posed by the Trump administration’s acceleration toward authoritarianism. They detail specific mechanisms, such as aggressive immigration enforcement and the creation of domestic terrorism designations, used to silence opposition and erode constitutional checks.

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Bill Kristol and Tom Joscelyn take on the Trump administration's plan to crush dissent.

Top Comments (10)

@ladymary22 2025-10-12

All honor to Frogs and Furries. 😊😅

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@DaleJohnson-c6b 2025-10-12

If the protests didn't matter he wouldn't be so frantic to silence them.

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@barnesmultimedia2725 2025-10-12

Bring it on. 140,000,000 adults disapprove of Trump. We have his goons vastly out numbered. Join the peaceful anti-authoritarian No Kings protest on October 18. See you there.

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@leenow3147 2025-10-12

I live in the city, Portland OR. Its calm and cool. The stories we are on fire is just crap!!!

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@nitabrueggeman7944 2025-10-12

It is a plan to suspend the elections with martial law or insurrection claim.

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@barbaramonaco105 2025-10-12

Another great guest on the Bulwark. Thank you.

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@JoslynAnderson-kl3to 2025-10-12

Can't wait for Saturday Oct.18 No Kings Day - Let's watch this administration try to explain away the hundreds of thousands to millions of people in the streets!

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@nitabrueggeman7944 2025-10-12

Now some of those J 6 criminals are part of I ice!

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@seancasserley271 2025-10-12

Together Frogs Strong

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@nitabrueggeman7944 2025-10-12

In the mean time we are less secure to real foreign cuz no one in FBI or terrorists cuz no one at D o J or FBI working on the intel around threats! If there is a crisis we are not going to know it until too late.

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