One fact is for certain that the diversion of introducing the “Donroe” Doctrine and invading Venezuela and threatening a military invasion of Greenland will not mask Trump’s attempted coup of the American Constitution. All it will do is complicate his life and dominate the news cycle for a period, but the objective of creating a White Christian American dictatorship, the Epstein affair, the economy and ultimately democracy itself will still be on the ballot in 2026. If anything what with legislative losses in the House and the Senate as well as coping with the unspeakable fatality of a bystander at an ICE operation in Minneapolis, Trump is unraveling even faster.
There have been frenzied cruel, and unconstitutional moves led by the 47th President, Donald Trump, to work towards the objective that only white skinned Christian nationalists constitute “We The People” and that the country is best served by a king. In order for the Trump administration to facilitate their constitutional coup they have claimed that an Emergency exists on nine different occasions as well as claiming that their illegal actions are in national security.
A factor ignored by most is the response of the growing power of “We The People". The public have been reminded of Trump’s first coup attempt culminating in January 6, 2021 by the testimony to Congress of Special Counsel Jack Smith who claimed that Trump was guilty “beyond a reasonable doubt”.
THE FOUNDERS
The Founders of American democracy had two underlying beliefs - that all people were created equal and that the prospective Republic should not be ruled by a king. In creating layers of institutions that would serve as a safeguard against America once again being headed by a monarch, they stitched together, in 1789, the Constitution of what was considered to be the first democracy in the world. Throughout the two and half centuries since the epoch making development there has been progress and setbacks to the aspirational objectives.
Generally, there has an inescapable progressive expansion of the Founders’ creation, but the hope that constitutional safeguards could resist the evil, venality and bigotry of a King has never been more challenged than it is today.
It is fair comment to say that the Republican dominated legislature rather than protect the Constitution have aided and abetted Trump while The Judiciary’s interventions represent a more complex story.
It is also fair comment that The Founders could not have foreseen that “We The People” could have been a force in preventing a King subverting the aspirational values the Constitution had enshrined.
To help create a White Christian National country the first order of business was to remove as many non white people as possible.
REMOVAL FROM AMERICA OF “DANGEROUS CRIMINALS” - THE BROWN PEOPLE - BY THE PARAMILITARY IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOM ENFORCEMENT AGENCY, (ICE).
The Immigration and Custom Enforcement Agency, ICE as a paramilitary force has the third highest military budget in the world, 170 billion dollars.
There are an estimated 11 million illegal or undocumented and or not having permission to live permanently individuals in the country. Some of the latter have been in the country for decades. If the country is to be white these people need to be removed! The overwhelming number of these are predominantly from Latin America. The countries where these migrants are being deported are in the central American quadrant of Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador indicative of the demographic targeted. Some deportees land in countries they have no ties to.
It is the Trump objective to remove 1 million persons a year whom he states are “dangerous criminals”. To date they claim to have deported 600,000 and that 1,500,000 individuals have self deported. There is no proof for these numbers, in fact at the time of the announcement it was logistically impossible to have reached the figure that Trump maintained the Administration had forcibly removed.
The law allegedly that allows fascistic behavior of hooded men of the Immigration and Custom Enforcement Agency, ICE, armed to the teeth swooping anywhere and everywhere, is the 1798 Alien Enemies Act. Of course this is nonsense as there is no declared war nor is their an invasion by another country’s army. The government’s action is therefore unconstitutional. However the litigation brought by hundreds of deportees, thousands are being held in shocking conditions in “concentration camps”, is under The Fifth Amendment of the Constitution, Failure to Receive Due Process. In addition there is litigation under The Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution, Equal Protection Under The Law. However judicial relief thus far has only impacted a fraction of those detained.
In removing every “illegal” brown non citizen in the country, the instrument being the masked ICE thugs, it is not a coincidence that the focus has been on the democratically controlled Los Angeles, Chicago, Minneapolis, Cities in Texas, cities in Florida and Tennessee, for example. Trump has created the illusion that both ICE and local enforcement agencies were unable to control the crime in their cities, particularly the “thuggery” that ICE had provoked. First Trump would send in The National Guard”, a quasi military force then the real military. Trump had addressed 800 Generals in October 2025 stating that they must ready themselves for getting rid of “All enemies internal” which is part of their oath of office.
The upheaval manufactured by ICE was resisted by the Democratic Governors and Mayors. The Courts ruled hat the situation didn’t warrant the National Guards and Trump ultimately withdrew them. The Court’s role in the attempt at deporting all the Latinos was brought to the public’s attention by the saga of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia
Trump had recognized that the judicial system was slow and where it suited him he has even defied court orders. What alerted the citizenry to the Trump’s administration’s open disregard for the rule of law was the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. While not specifically named, Garcia, was one of 200 alleged gang members who were summarily deported to a torture prison in El Salvador. A judge ruled that the plane even if already taken off must turn around as none of the deportees had received “due process”. The Bloomberg Agency subsequently reported that 90 percent of them had no criminal record.
The Judge was defied and to this day he is demanding an explanation from the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security. He is not letting the matter go in that the Secretaries of the Agencies themselves may be hauled before the court to defend whether or not they are guilty of contempt of court.
The lawyer for the Justice Department admitted that it was a clerical error that sent Garcia to the notorius Terrorism Confinement Detention Center in El Salvador. This led to a further series of court cases including in the Supreme Court ordering his return. The Administration initially resisted but the moment they brought him back he was charged with importing illegal immigrants.
The Justice Department insisted they would deport him, regardless, of the outcome of the trials. They kept naming countries that publicly refused to accept him. He claimed that he wanted to self deport to Costa Rica who were prepared to accept him as a political refugee.The latter fact was falsely denied by the Justice Secretary Bondi’s Department. After case after case with judges ruling that he should be released from detention. Garcia then argued that the litigation against him was vindictive which the Bench concurred leaving the Trump Administration have to defend that this was not so.
To be continued.
JUDICIARY - THE THIRD BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT
The Trump Administration has been temporarily thwarted by the District and Appeal Courts with their broad sweeping attempts at turning America into a soulless dictatorship including emptying out the Federal Departments and Agencies, removing social safety nets and violating the Constitution. The Supreme Court however has to a large extent suspended the lower courts’ injunctions to halt the Executive’s excesses and allowed the Government to proceed with their objectively blatant disregard for the rule of law and the Constitution itself till the matters are fully argued and briefed This has created anger and confusion among the District and Appeal Court Judges who have in 95 percent of the 400 cases against the Trump Administration ruled against them. An outstanding exception by the Supreme Court was their decision to declare unconstitutional Trump attempts to send the National Guard, a civilian adjunct to the militia itself, to control the “unrest” he had deliberately tried to provoke.
The Supreme Court are about to rule on two blatantly unconstitutional attempts by Trump to negate “Birthright Citizenship” and that the “Power of the Purse” is the prerogative of The Legislature. The latter issue is more central to the Trump coup attempt which is to ultimately replace income tax with a sales tax which places the financial burden even less on the wealthy and corporations. In short Trump’s so called tariffs are in fact taxes which constitutionally are not the privy of The Executive. The impact of that ruling will create even more chaos in Trump’s chaotic administration as there is already litigation from companies to get the money back they paid in tariffs.
The ability of “We The People” as a branch to protect a King from taking over the Government could never have been thought of in the late 18th Century.
“WE THE PEOPLE” - THE FOURTH RAIL
“We The People” is the iconic beginning of the preamble to the American Constitution. The Founders thought they were the representatives of the white propertied men both for the negotiations and in the subsequent legislature. The Founders could not have imagined that around about the 21st Century there would have been revolutions in communication and in transport for example. The revolutions of even newspapers, radio and television have been surpassed by the digital media. In a flash there can be a connection between millions of people. Also for better or worse the digital media had become democratized, anyone could join in. Individual podcasters with millions of followers has flourished. The progressive Meidas Network has bigger ratings then all media digital or conventional. The internet is used to inform, mobilize, even hold meetings through Zoom or follow them live on You Tube.
A little known fact is that there are protests in America every minute of every day. Rachel Maddow spends the first half of her TV show displaying a round up of some of the demonstrations. There are also phone networks set up to warn that ICE is in the neighborhood. There are organized attempts at recording all the blatant violence they are perpetrating. Around every hotel that ICE is quartered there are protests through the night to keep them awake. Spontaneous protests appeared in 20 cities following the inexplicable homicide of Ms. Good in Minnesota involving ICE.
The protests that garner the most attention are those organized and coordinated by a group called “Indivisible”. This group conducts education leaders for their national “No Kings” protests. The June gathering of 3 million citizens was held at 2,100 venues throughout the country while the October meeting involved conservatively 7 million participants at 2,700 sites.They are aiming for 10 million at the next one as that represents 3 and a half percent of the population. The latter figure has coincided with regime change in other countries.
This increase of protests is reflected in Trump’s approval rating being at 36 percent and that in at least 25 elections across the country the Democrats have improved their vote by 17 percent.
AT THE END OF THE DAY
Donald Trump is having yet another attempt to interfere in the result of an election. At this stage Trump’s position is, “all I am asking for is that 18 constituencies be gerrymandered”.
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