> The [Fourth] amendment is meant to protect Americans from unreasonable searches or seizures of their property by the government.
Much more than that! It reads:
> The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Seizure includes, for the sake of example, physical violence and, more specifically, shooting people in the head.
Do you really think these people care what the constitution says about anything?
The irony I see here is that she is relatively young. By making these declarations, she and others in this administration are making an implicit bet that there won't be another sensible e.g. law-abiding administration in the future that won't put them in jail.
Politics is a fickle world -- being brazen by breaking laws is a risky business. You might be in charge now, but are you sure your people will always be in charge?
We care and that matters. A lot.
Always remember that Krisi Noem shoots dogs.
America, in all trappings as well as in policy, is nearing becoming a soviet economy. This administration has already pushed more straight up socialist policies than nearly any before it.
At this rate, America is going follow suit and be just as worried about keeping people IN the country as it is keeping people OUT.
What socialist policies? Did we get free healthcare or free higher education or subsidized government housing and food and I somehow missed all of that? Did the government suddenly start focusing on economic inequality first and foremost and eliminated all institutional racism?
The US as it stands right exhibits quite a few hallmarks of fascism rather socialism: amalgamation of the capital and the state, marginalization of minorities, an extreme abuse of power, extreme nationalism. One of the tenets of socialism is that the worker class has no state, that it can only work if the workers of all nations unite, that's the exact opposite of nationalism.
the only common thing I can think of between the soviet flavor of socialism and Trump's administration is that both are authoritarian.
The government is taking equity stakes in corporations. It's anti-trade and anti-business. It's picking winners and losers in the economy.
In a lot of ways we are tangibly shifting to a soviet style centrally planned economy, just without all of the welfare (which, to be fair, the actual soviet economies were bad at providing).
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