From Venezuela to America: Trump wants to bring the war home

[marmar]

From Venezuela to America: Trump wants to bring the war home
By linking "Antifa" to foreign drug cartels, U.S. officials are building the case for a domestic war on terror

By Charles R. Davis
News Editor
Published October 16, 2025 6:00AM (EDT)


(Salon) Without charge or trial, one man — demonstrating powers that would make a Greek tyrant sickened with envy — ordered the killing of another half-dozen civilians, announcing his decision in a missive delivered after the sentence had already been carried out. These were nameless foreigners on a boat, smote from the face of the Earth, as celebrated in a 33-second video shared by the judge, jury and executioner, while transiting along a route “associated with illicit narcoterrorist networks.”

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Gone are the days of indicting, trying and convicting drug traffickers; provided the users are conservative, white and not homeless, gone too are the days of holding those addicted to their products responsible for their actions, at least rhetorically — they are, for purposes of speechmaking, the victims of foreign terror. So instead of boarding and searching boats suspected of carrying narcotics, Trump’s U.S. military has executed at least 27 people accused of drug offenses as if they were enemy soldiers in a war declared by Congress.

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But with U.S. soldiers already patrolling U.S. cities to combat what the U.S. president describes as a sprawling “enemy within,” is it so unreasonable to fear that the war could come home? Could a president, declared immune from all domestic criminal law, assert the same awesome power he’s demonstrated abroad, but in his own country?

“It’s the power of the Old Testament God, or Zeus or Thor’s hammer: to smite people who displease you without consequence from the heavens — to reach down and just crush them like a bug,” Sanho Tree, a former military historian who leads the Drug Policy project at the Institute for Policy Studies, a left-wing think tank, said in an interview with Salon. “That is more seductive to Trump than anything else I can think of right now, because he’s all about vengeance, and this is the ultimate form of revenge. Vaporize your opponents.”

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But the administration is not just planning to use the same tactics. The Department of Homeland Security has made clear that the plan now is to assert that anti-fascists and foreign narco-terrorists are the same — an ever-present, omni-enemy that lurks behind every critique of this administration. ....................(more)

https://www.salon.com/2025/10/16/from-venezuela-to-america-trump-wants-to-bring-the-war-home/

[walkingman]

1. I guess Trump's desire to be a "war president" includes a War On America.

[Passages]

2. The lunatic may get away with it too.