As I was writing this piece, the Trump regime just announced it is sending 200 Marines to help ICE agents terrorize Florida. A day before this country celebrates its Independence from the British monarchy, an aspiring King and authoritarian is abusing his power to unleash the military against his own people.
Americans might not have Medicaid or SNAP, but we’re getting UFC fights on the White House lawn, baby! (Yup, can’t make this shit up.)
Since I love keeping receipts, I’ve been repeating a Trump statement from October that I kept saying people should take literally and seriously. He said he would unleash the National Guard and military against the “enemy from within.” That, by the way, is yet another Hitler quote Trump has cited.
Thousands of masked and weaponized ICE agents have already been terrorizing Los Angeles with the help of the National Guard and military. They’ve just been given an infusion of $175 billion, which makes them comparable to the armies of foreign countries. They’ve picked up citizens, legal immigrants, and undocumented immigrants. They’ve handcuffed Senators, harassed elected officials, and even detained the Mayor of Newark. They’ve shown up at 7-11, Home Depot, and elementary schools to kidnap and deport children.
Without due process, immigrants who have committed no crimes have been sent to die in an El Salvador prison. Today, the Supreme Court ruled that 8 immigrants who aren’t even from South Sudan can be deported to be tortured and potentially die in a country facing civil war. They might be luckier than the immigrants and alleged “criminals” who will be sent to Alligator Alcatraz, a concentration camp in Florida. Trump is equal opportunity in his cruelty - he’s even open to deporting U.S. citizens to these dungeons and stripping Americans of their citizenship if he doesn’t like their politics.
Latinos who voted for Trump didn’t vote for this, according to Mike Madrid, a political consultant and commentator who has been an expert on Latino American political trends for decades. I’ve been following him for the past year as he’s been on point, trying to warn Democrats about the Latino vote slipping to Republicans. Unfortunately, a slight majority of Latino men went for Trump in 2024 because they believed the lie that he’d improve their economic prosperity.
However, Madrid, citing historical trends, says Republicans have now overplayed their hands with their draconian measures and the big, billionaire bill from hell. He says there’s a wide open lane for Democrats to capitalize on Trump’s cruelty and failures, but they have to fight and message properly. Madrid says the data reveals that politicians like Bernie Sanders and Zohran Mamdani are capturing the anti-establishment, economic populist sentiment that is attractive to Latino voters. They want fighters willing to reform a broken system that doesn’t benefit them or America.
Unfortunately, Democratic leadership spent the past two weeks smearing Mamdani instead of attacking Trump or informing Americans about the poison in the 900-page bill that just cut Medicaid to make billionaires richer.
In this conversation, we discuss how Trump’s attacks on immigrants were a Trojan Horse to create a fascist police state that benefits the white supremacist agenda of Stephen Miller and the economic agenda of oligarchs. Madrid offers his predictions on where America is headed and offers ideas for how the majority can fight back.
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