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Is Trump Solidifying a Dictatorship?

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MONDAY, MARCH 17, 2025
Wars, foreign and domestic (revolutions, civil wars), are more likely to be avoided the closer the division of labor binds men.
– Ludwig von Mises, Critique of Interventionism [1929]

HORNBERGER’S BLOG
March 17, 2025
Is Trump Solidifying a Dictatorship?
It appears that President Trump and his minions may have knowingly, deliberately, and intentionally disobeyed an order of a U.S. District Judge regarding the deportation of hundreds of immigrants to El Salvador. Trump was rushing to fly the immigrants, who are suspected of being members of a Venezuelan gang that Trump has labeled a “terrorist” group, to El Salvador, where they would be …
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