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With the turmoil President Donald Trump and the MAGA party have unleashed on this unsuspecting nation, it is a challenge to point to any one thing that is more horrific than any other. ICE with its reign of terror; the attack on freedom of speech ; and the attempt to turn our country into a police state are only a very small part of what is at work with what I see as the fascist takeover by the ruling regime.

The foundation upon which this coup has been built is facilitated by an absent MAGA party, a corrupt Supreme Court, and an executive branch that is essentially allowed to crush democracy with impunity. The protections that have served our country so well

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