{"id":19396,"date":"2025-09-09T20:52:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T20:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=19396"},"modified":"2025-09-09T20:52:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T20:52:07","slug":"stop-acting-like-this-is-normal-the-ezra-klein-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=19396","title":{"rendered":"Stop Acting Like This is Normal | The Ezra Klein Show"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Trump is using the power of the federal government to arrest and harass people in his way or who even criticize him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump is using the presidency to enrich himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump is using powers not given to him by the Constitution, and the Supreme Court is not stopping him in many cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump is using the military to patrol and intimidate U.S. cities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump is using ICE to assault, arrest, and deport people without due process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump fires statisticians because the actual stats make him look bad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump fires analysts because he doesn&#8217;t like the accurate information they bring him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All over the government and military, Trump has fired watch dogs whose job it is to report corruption and abuses of power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump uses the government&#8217;s power to limit what major media outlets can say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump gets legitimate prosecutions dropped because he wants the accused as a political ally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump uses the pardon power based on whether the guilty are his political allies, rather than whether they are unjustly being punished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump fires prosecutors for legitimately prosecuting his political allies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump&#8217;s advisors and business leaders suck-up to Trump like he is a monarch or a dictator, showering him in bullshit praise that would be a sarcastic insult to anyone else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Trump family makes money from dictatorships who want things from the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By these actions, Trump is greatly damaging U.S. democracy. If you don&#8217;t recognize this, you either have not been paying attention, or you suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome. U.S. democracy is under attack, and most people don&#8217;t even know it&#8217;s happening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Stop Acting Like This is Normal | The Ezra Klein Show\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W3-0SpkF-V0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump is using the power of the federal government to arrest and harass people in his way or who even criticize him. <\/p>\n<p>Trump is using the presidency to enrich himself. <\/p>\n<p>Trump is using powers not given to him by the Constitution, and the Supreme Court is not stopping him in many cases. <\/p>\n<p>Trump is using the military to patrol and intimidate U.S. cities. <\/p>\n<p>Trump is using ICE to assault, arrest, and deport people without due process. <\/p>\n<p>Trump fires statisticians because the actual stats make him look bad. <\/p>\n<p>Trump fires analysts because he doesn&#8217;t like the accurate information they bring him. <\/p>\n<p>All over the government and military, Trump has fired watch dogs whose job it is to report corruption and abuses of power. <\/p>\n<p>Trump uses the government&#8217;s power to limit what major media outlets can say. <\/p>\n<p>Trump gets legitimate prosecutions dropped because he wants the accused as a political ally. <\/p>\n<p>Trump uses the pardon power based on whether the guilty are his political allies, rather than whether they are unjustly being punished. <\/p>\n<p>Trump fires prosecutors for legitimately prosecuting his political allies. <\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s advisors and business leaders suck-up to Trump like he is a monarch or a dictator, showering him in bullshit praise that would be a sarcastic insult to anyone else. <\/p>\n<p>The Trump family makes money from dictatorships who want things from the United States. <\/p>\n<p>By these actions, Trump is greatly damaging U.S. democracy. If you don&#8217;t recognize this, you either have not been paying attention, or you suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome. U.S. democracy is under attack, and most people don&#8217;t even know it&#8217;s happening. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=W3-0SpkF-V0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[423,1104,864,429,431,660,221,1638,490,694,813,222,1034,170,747],"class_list":["post-19396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-abuse-of-power","tag-authoritarianism","tag-autocracy","tag-constitution","tag-democracy","tag-dictatorship","tag-donald-trump","tag-due-process","tag-ezra-klein","tag-power","tag-presidency","tag-president","tag-presidential-power","tag-trump","tag-unconstitutional"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19397,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19396\/revisions\/19397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}