WTF are they talking about fascism in a future tense, we've been here for decades.
this post was submitted on 26 Apr 2025
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"Classmates warn Heimrich Himmler he risks enabling descent 'into fascism'"
Warns? Descent? WE ARE THERE. HERE YOU ARE. If you voted this guy in, you are part of the problem. 😮💨
How many Yale graduates are Republican members of Congress, or conservative Supreme Court justices? They should all get letters....
A group of Yale University classmates of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent urged him in a letter to reconsider his role “in facilitating the Trump administration’s intended transformation” of the U.S. “into an authoritarian state.”
As of Friday, 140 members of the Yale Class of 1984 signed the online letter to Bessent, a member of that class.
It argues that “so many” of the actions of President Donald Trump and his second administration are unconstitutional and undermine the principles of democracy.
The signatories include lawyers, CEOs, journalists, playwrights, a pastor, college professors, a farmer, and social workers.
The letter to Bessent says that he, as a Political Science major at Yale, knows “that the three branches of the U.S. government are meant to act as equal partners, providing checks and balances on each other to prevent the kind of power grab the executive branch is currently perpetrating.”
The missive then ticks off a list of examples of what it says are the Trump administration’s efforts “to usurp the power vested in the judicial and legislative branches ... for their own personal aggrandizement, wealth, and power.”
I mean, he's gotta know. Right? How could he not?