MM - But it's coming, and Yak ... is just pointing out the obvious.
If Obie would ever bother to read any of the sources provided, he'd recognize that's it's not just me, but the SPLC, Amnesty International, congress members, governors, academics, historians, and journalists with familiarity of authoritarian regimes all making the same comparisons and raising the same concerns. Hell, ICE is even openly embracing the comparison in its recruitment materials.
Whether you use the language of Hawaii Senator Schatz in comparing the administration to a "competitive autocracy" like Orban's, or Hawaii Senator Hirono's calls "to keep fighting - we cannot lay down while this regime destroys our democracy & launches our country into an authoritarian state", or Puna Rep Ilagan's efforts to prevent Hawaii "state and counties from providing land to the federal government for the establishment of any immigration detention facility", when you have a paramilitary organization rounding up people based on their ethnicity and holding them in facilities where their population is concentrated, the similar past events from Hawaii and the wider world are not just coming, many of them are already here.
If Obie would ever bother to read any of the sources provided, he'd recognize that's it's not just me, but the SPLC, Amnesty International, congress members, governors, academics, historians, and journalists with familiarity of authoritarian regimes all making the same comparisons and raising the same concerns. Hell, ICE is even openly embracing the comparison in its recruitment materials.
Whether you use the language of Hawaii Senator Schatz in comparing the administration to a "competitive autocracy" like Orban's, or Hawaii Senator Hirono's calls "to keep fighting - we cannot lay down while this regime destroys our democracy & launches our country into an authoritarian state", or Puna Rep Ilagan's efforts to prevent Hawaii "state and counties from providing land to the federal government for the establishment of any immigration detention facility", when you have a paramilitary organization rounding up people based on their ethnicity and holding them in facilities where their population is concentrated, the similar past events from Hawaii and the wider world are not just coming, many of them are already here.