The craziest part is that the article is complaining about well discussed things the federal government has always had authority over, like law enforcment in Washington DC and immigration, without mentioning actual overreaches, like the USA PATRIOT Act and UIGEA, whcich newsrooms tend to ignore.

For one alternative to newsrooms

  Today, for the second time in as many days, President Donald J. Trump suggested that Americans want a dictator. In a meeting in the Cabinet Room that lasted more than three hours, during which he listened to the fulsome praise of his cabinet officers and kept his hands below the table, seemingly to hide the bad bruising on his right hand, Trump said: “The line is that I'm a dictator, but I stop crime. So a lot of people say, ‘You know, if that's the case, I'd rather have a dictator.’”

  With Trump underwater on all his key issues and his job approval rating dismal, the administration appears to be trying to create support for Trump by insisting that the U.S. is mired in crime and he alone can solve the problem. The administration’s solution is not to fund violence prevention programs and local law enforcement—two methods proven to work—but instead to use the power of the government to terrorize communities.

  There is a frantic feel to that effort, as if they feel they must convince Americans to fear crime more than they fear rising grocery prices or having to take their children past police checkpoints on their way to school.

from Letters from an American, Heather Cox Richardson https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-26-2025

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_Cox_Richardson

Mark Twain: "It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled"

So called watchdogs of democracy has been 100% fooled. But did you see that radical left lunatics colored pedestrian cross walk using chalks? National guard inbound!