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The quiet part out loud

March 26, 2025 by Guest Post

by Mark Van Loon, Hamilton

When Tom Homan, Border Czar, says “I don’t care what the judges say…”, that’s grounds for immediate dismissal. For him and any other government officials, elected or appointed, that borders on treason.  

The Constitution, the guiding document of our Republic and our system of government, has been working pretty well for almost 250 years. Our system of government is a good bit messy, but that’s intentional. It keeps it fluid – the Founders knew that they couldn’t anticipate every situation that would come along for centuries so they built in methods of updating it. But this doesn’t include just ignoring the parts you disagree with.

Hitler turned the Weimar Republic into a dictatorship in less than two months. A part of Project 2025 – the Trump playbook – has a plan to destroy our system of government in 180 days. Just six months. We’re two months in. Is this what you want? If you’re one of those who would prefer a dictatorship or an authoritarian state, maybe under religious diktats, there are already several of these around the world that you could move to. You could start in the Middle East and go north and east from there. God speed.

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