Wen<p>Trump is halfway to making America a police state</p><p>To some extent it always has been. A rag tag of local forces, often racist, badly trained and poorly run by elected police chiefs and judges. But now the constitution is being ignored by El Presidente as well.</p><p>'It seems a matter of time before other less besieged western legal systems hear petitions by US citizens for asylum. '</p><p><a href="https://archive.is/20250415113443/https://www.ft.com/content/4c4b0f14-3e85-4436-94de-204d3f518f3c" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.is/20250415113443/http</span><span class="invisible">s://www.ft.com/content/4c4b0f14-3e85-4436-94de-204d3f518f3c</span></a> (archive)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Policing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Policing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/PoliceState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PoliceState</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/DeclineAndFall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DeclineAndFall</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/FascistState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FascistState</span></a></p>