Mayors are starting to stand up to the Trump military takeover of America. The latest is Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson. I’m not exactly a fan, but if I was a mayor of Chicago, I would be doing the same thing.
Everyone knows Chicago has been poorly managed. Crime has been out of control there for years. Something definitely needs to be done. I think many people agree on that. But is the answer big brother, or should I say big daddy, take over by the federal government? The majority of Americans are saying NO. And I am one of them. 
I admit that agreeing with Democrats was not on my bingo card. But authoritarianism makes strange bedfellows. That could be a very bad thing for Trump. What I’m talking about is the ever increasing unification of Democrats and Republicans against authoritarianism. Turns out our other differences start to look very small in the face of a complete government takeover of our country.
It will be interesting to see what happens next as Brandon Johnson says he has ordered Chicago police officers not to cooperate with Trump’s masked federal storm troopers. I should clarify that those “storm troopers” are our fellow citizens who have been turned against us by the authoritarian in the White House.
I’d be remiss if I didn’t say I’m not a fan of crime. But I am also fully aware that police officers are not utilized properly. The laws have not been updated. The overhead and bureaucracy is out of control. There are myriad ways to go about bringing down crime rates aside from federal big daddy government takeover.
I’d also be remiss if I didn’t add that crime rate in Chicago has been coming down steadily. In fact, I think it’s down 20% over last year. So Trump launching a “state of emergency“ to justify giving himself authoritarian powers is in fact, illegal, justice it was illegal for him to do the same for the insane tariffs he has been implementing.
Oh! The irony of the most lawless president we’ve ever had breaking the law to supposedly enforce the law in America’s cities. The chief criminal posing as America’s great crime fighter — while he protects pedophiles and white collars who have committed crimes, including clients of Pam Bondi’s brother (Google that one). then again it’s not really irony. It is insane, psychotic level hypocrisy and bipolar dementia and/or mass psychosis.  Whatever it is, it ain’t American.