Agent Orange boasts that he’d deploy the U.S. military on domestic soil to suppress protests he deems riots, patrol Democratic-run cities he deems to be crime infested, and to hunt for undocumented immigrants. He also says he would use the F.B.I. to investigate and prosecute his political foes. He tried to do this and more in his first term but was thwarted by advisors and the courts. However, recent Supreme Court decisions have made it easier for him to succeed if he gets a second chance.
He wants to mobilize the military and law enforcement for what he calls the largest deportation operation in American history: He’d round up millions of undocumented people and hold them in camps to await expulsion. Obviously, some documented immigrants and even native-born Americans would inadvertently get caught up in such a sweeping deportation operation (collateral damage).
He talks about eliminating federal income tax and instead imposing broad tariffs on all imports to fund the government. This would essentially be a new tax system, one that places a greater burden on low-income Americans. A greater burden on the already impoverished would lead to both more crime and more protests, as well as civil and political unrest, which would lead to still more military presence in American cities and further prosecution of adversaries.
I do not want to live in that America. I want to be free.
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