The New York Times has just published an excellent editorial on the dangerous direction in which America is headed under President Trump. It is entitled “Are We Losing Our Democracy?” The editorial lists 12 factors pointing toward America’s slide into authoritarianism. I highly recommend reading it.

According to data collected by the research firm Statista, 29 percent of Americans cannot afford to take a vacation this year. A vacation is not the only thing Americans are struggling to afford. The failure of wages to keep up with price inflation is why household debt hit a record level of 18.4 trillion dollars this year, with the average household owing more than 100,000 dollars.

In later years, Cheney worked to empower the deep state against Donald Trump and his supporters.

Having been battle-tested on Palestinian civilians, the UAVs are now being used to surveil protesters across the US.

It may be true that lovers of liberty, originally steeped in society’s preferred form of social democracy, must travel along the spectrum of the state via small (“minimal”) before reaching the conclusion that the state must go. But logically, this is not the case. To cure cancer, it is not necessary to reduce the size of a tumor bit by bit. The cure is to remove it. Similarly, if a rock upsets the flow of a stream, the solution is not to change the size or shape of the rock, to make it more streamlined, but to simply remove it.

“Laws are like sausages, it’s better not to see them made.”—Otto von Bismarck

In every age of revolution and reaction, when power grows centralized and the advocates of liberty are scattered, there arise sanctuaries where free minds find refuge. For the classical liberals of Revolutionary, Napoleonic, and Restoration Europe, that haven was the Château de Coppet, a modest estate on the shores of Lake Geneva that became one of the most remarkable intellectual centers in modern history.

The extrajudicial killings continue without any declaration of war. Meanwhile, the administration admits few of these boats have the ability to even reach US waters.