Lincoln square - What Trump Really Wants Is Unchecked Power
Here in Chicago, we know how to prepare for winter, but Donald Trump’s promised ICE storm will test us. When we get pummeled with snow, we dig out. We put chairs on the street to save our parking spots and call it Dibs. This time for some that preparation means finding relatives and friends to care for children should they not come home. It means leaving empty chairs at the dinner table in the hope that the missing will return. But we are tough, and preparation also means stepping up to make sure that ICE follows the law when it shows up, that officers identify themselves, that they do not get a free pass to go where they have no warrant to enter.
We do not expect the Trump Administration’s body-armored thugs will cooperate. We do not expect them to come with warrants and unmasked, carrying identification, or acting with the dignity of a government that pursues justice. We expect what we have seen elsewhere — brute force, coercion, and the destruction of trust between communities and their government. We will not bring violence. Neither will we shrink from violence brought to us.
The abuses everyone has witnessed, the ones that have now been amply documented, do not pass the smell test of officers gone rogue. The stink is a fish rotting from its very orange head.
The agony of his ICE raids is just one type of pain Trump is willing to inflict to get what he wants. Political violence, and even war are others. What he wants is unchecked power.
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