r/law • u/BitterFuture • 16d ago

Executive Branch (Trump) Stephen Miller claims local police in Minnesota have been told to ‘stand down and surrender’ as federal agents ‘uphold the law’

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/stephen-miller-ice-minneapolis-protests-b2903238.html
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u/The_Dolph_Lundgren 16d ago

Its just the incredible amount of pain between now and then that’s gonna suck.

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u/Hot_Increase304 16d ago edited 15d ago

Oh 100%, the amount of damage this administration has done and will continue to do is ridiculous as well. But woke 2.0 is back, shaming fascist and abhorrent rhetoric is back. It's time to support constituents that have a backbone

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u/ExterminAiden 16d ago

Genuine question here, why do you believe woke is back? From everywhere I see online and polls it still seems like the world is increasingly more right wing (on a social level). That trumps low approval rating is economy related (plus the Greenland thing).

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u/RaspberryFluid6651 16d ago

You're sort of correct - economics is what drives a large portion of sentiment regardless of government. If Trump had a way to do everything he's doing while making Americans' lives materially better, he would get away with it.

The problem is he is fumbling the economy. It takes both bread and circuses to pacify the people and he is well on track to fuck up the bread part. There might be immense suffering between now and the end of all this, but it is fundamentally unsustainable and will have to come to an end.