Posted on 08/13/2025 7:15:07 AM PDT by DallasBiff
Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) accused President Trump of a “raw authoritarian power grab” after the president moved to federalize the District of Columbia’s police department and call the National Guard to the District’s streets.
“He’s playing dictator in our nation’s capital as a dress rehearsal as he pushes democracy to the brink,” Van Hollen wrote on social platform X.
“And by the way, Trump couldn’t care less about safety in DC or the people of DC. If he did, he wouldn’t have blocked DC from spending $1 billion of its OWN money to fund its OWN police department, schools and more,” the Maryland senator added, referring to a government funding bill that blocked the District from spending already-appropriated funds. “This is flatly about testing the limits of his power.”
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Dear democRAT Senators,
It’s a REPUBLIC, not a DEMOCRACY. Get that through your thick, impenetrable head, ya’ big dummy!
It’s a REPUBLIC, not a DEMOCRACY. Get that through your thick, impenetrable head, ya’ big dummy!
If you want to be accurate — constitutional republic.
The U.S. do practice a form of democracy, in which power resides with the people, exercised through voting.
"Our democracy" refers to a totalitarian state ruled by the Democratic Party.
DEMOCRATS SUPPORT CRIME AND CRIMINALS.
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