{"id":1160,"date":"2026-09-12T18:59:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T18:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/?p=1160"},"modified":"2026-09-12T19:05:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T19:05:12","slug":"state-thuggery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/state-thuggery\/","title":{"rendered":"State Thuggery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Fascist playbook\u00a0 at work &#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"mx-auto w-full max-w-[630px] text-left\">\n<p class=\"font-text text-lg leading-[1.6] mt-5 md:mt-[1.875rem] has-drop-cap is-magazine\" data-v-a500cf4d=\"\">&#8220;&#8230; large swaths of the nation today seem more likely to say that they fear DHS itself than terrorists from overseas. Roughly half the country <a class=\"js-tealium-tracking\" href=\"https:\/\/yougov.com\/en-us\/articles\/55212-majority-americans-little-or-no-confidence-ice-immigration-customs-enforcement-july-17-20-2026-economist-yougov-poll\" data-tracking=\"mpos=center&amp;mid=ar_body&amp;lindex=62&amp;lcol=\">now supports<\/a> outright abolishing ICE.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2026\/09\/11\/9-11-dhs-mistakes-terrorism-01070759\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2026\/09\/11\/9-11-dhs-mistakes-terrorism-01070759<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fascist playbook\u00a0 at work &#8230; &#8220;&#8230; large swaths of the nation today seem more likely to say that they fear DHS itself than terrorists from overseas. Roughly half the country now supports outright abolishing ICE.&#8221; https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2026\/09\/11\/9-11-dhs-mistakes-terrorism-01070759<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[34,1],"tags":[43],"class_list":["post-1160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fascism_notes","category-uncategorized","tag-amerika"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1160"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1165,"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions\/1165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}