'This is the crisis moment': Political scientist says Trump crossed a crucial red line

Yes. He is now directly and mockingly violating the constitution and an explicit Supreme Court order. It is now a completely naked constitutional crisis for all the public to see.

Reasonable people have seen it happening since long before today, but today marks a shift from a more covert assault to an open one, and that is noteworthy.

Eta: I don't mean they were really covert before, either, to be clear. They dropped any remaining veil of plausible deniability today though. And then also let it slip on recording that the intent is to deprive US citizens of due process and ship "terrorists" (read: undesirables) to El Salvador, too. Today is a historic day, sadly.

Well now the President and his government are openly saying that they will kidnap anyone they don't like off the street, or out of their homes or schools, and disappear them to a foreign prison where they may be tortured, enslaved, and/or killed, without any justification, evidence, accusation or due process. Any American, or anyone else in the USA, can be going about their daily business and the cops can kidnap you and traffick you that same day into a lifetime of torture in a foreign dictatorship famous for human rights abuses, and no one in the world can help you.

All these years we've had to put up with Americans going on about needing guns to protect themselves from tyranny and the importance of free speech, and when an actual tyrannical dictator starts disappearing people for their political views, their race or (it's coming) their gender identity or sexual orientation, Americans do nothing to stop it. In fact, many of the "guns and free speech" crowd just love it. Until the police come for them.

All the lines have been red for a few YEARS now. Hello...is anybody there?...anybody listening?

The direction this is going is BAD.

1. Because, even in a world where you can buy assault rifles at the mall, it is generally only the upper middle class who are able to afford to arm themselves
2. The idea of "Everywhere I go it is high noon at the o-k corral and I need to be ready to quickdraw on a toddler at a moment's notice" is a decidedly White American mentality
3. People are generally either getting rounded up at border control (where you can't have a gun because other countries are sane), at work during a raid, or getting head bagged off the street. None of which are situations where pulling your EDC glock with one in the chamber is going to do much because they have body armor and assault rifles

I wonder if my being disappeared would get my mom to understand what she's supporting.