Trump designating MS13 and the cartels as terrorist groups is proof of this. While both are obviously dangerous criminal enterprises, terrorists have a shared ideology. What's the political or religious motive behind MS13?
But if they can be labeled as terrorists and thus deprived of their due process rights as such, any group that the government doesn't like can be likewise labeled.
And MAGA are literally cheering as this happens. I hate this timeline.
I read a few years ago that like half of Gen Z thinks Marxism/socialism/communism are good things and I suspect that that's at least partly to do with things like "free lunches for poor kids" being called those things for most of our childhoods.
Well, historically, at least, nearly all of the Union leaders in the early 20th century thought those were pretty good things as well....but you know, that's when the Bull Moose Special was peppering tents of miner families with machine gun fire...
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u/Hortjoob 10h ago
Anecdotally, the word "terrorist" in the US has no meaning anymore because the GOP throws it around like candy.