What Now

They haven’t suspended habeus corpus yet, but they want to, talk about it openly, and already act like it. On the same day Stephen Miller told the press of looking for ways to do it, ICE agents arrested the mayor of Newark for protesting an ICE holding facility in New Jersey, and DHS talked about doing the same for the Congress representatives who were with him. Meanwhile the White House and Pentagon have started making plans for a military parade for Trump’s birthday, like he’s one of those petty dictators he admires so much. For instance: Rodrigo Duterte, the strong man who deployed summary executions of drug dealers, a practice Trump openly praised.