I’ve said this before, but I’ll repeat it for emphasis. The administration wants the power to enact summary justice on the street: immigrants, protestors, polit

I’ve said this before, but I’ll repeat it for emphasis. The administration wants the power to enact summary justice on the street: immigrants, protestors, political rivals, same as every other authoritarian regime in the last century. Currently, there is no mandate to just execute people without due process. So the lovely humanist wonks in Trump’s orbit came up with this brilliant solution. Just send undesirables to Guantanamo-Salvador and pretend nobody has the jurisdiction to bring them back. Same result. In other words, when you read news like this, you should be reacting the same way as when you hear about third-world death squads lining up dissidents against the village wall and dumping their bodies in a well. The impact of the violence has been sanitized and laundered, but the net result is mostly the same.