It’s Time for Americans to Start Talking About “Soft Secession”

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I am keeping track of Indivisible and I am in one hundred percent support of them. But holding my breath for Trump to so soil the water that he poisons his supporters is not easy. I am with David Brooks who wants everyone to stop cooperating with him and like Brooks I’m disappointed that in the short term they are going along with our pale imitation of Adolph.

But there is much else going on. FEMA employees risk suspension to expose Trump’s indifference to calamities he can’t be bothered with while he chases his pipe dream of a Nobel Peace Prize while instituting the worst inquisition since the Red Scare. Our business community stockpiled goods in anticipation of the crumbling trade economy but their inventories are running dry. Trump will probably be tagged for his stupidity because no one else is in charge of the All Trump Government that is going to crumble under the pale ghosts of the Republican party who would rather pleasure Trump with obsequious fawning than risk enraging the 30 percent of Americans who now constitute the primarying power of a party that no longer bears any relationship with Lincoln.

So on Substack I read a brilliant summary of what Blue state officials are doing to make sure they exercise the State’s right’s powers that Republican racists always championed after they left the South in the Reagan years.

Read this article and keep the faith: It’s Time for Americans to Start Talking About “Soft Secession”

This is how it begins:

“Behind closed doors, blue state leaders are planning. They’re war-gaming scenarios where federal agents show up and continue to transgress further and further past what is “legal.” Daily the courts are showing that that something is legal when Trump wants it to happen, and illegal when he doesn’t. How does a government function under these circumstance?

For many state Attorney Generals and Governors, the legal briefs are already drafted. The strategy sessions have been running since December. “We saw this coming, even though we hoped it wouldn’t,” former Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum told The 19th days after Trump’s inauguration.”

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Harry is a ferociously good natured eccentric in Duluth Minnesota who detests traitors dressed up as Uncle Sam. You can find somewhat better edited writings of his at the Duluth Reader "contributors." page. The URL is:

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