Here's a New Year's resolution for Trump's America: no snitching | Hamilton Nolan

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : The US relies on snitches to carry out secret drone strikes, to kidnap foreign nationals to black-site prisons, to send Swat teams breaking through the door of your friend who sells weed, to sic the code enforcement squad on your neighbor who has not kept their lawn trimmed to the mandatory length.
61% : Government persecution requires a lot of informers.
55% : In less than a month, Trump will return to the White House, with far fewer checks on his power than he had the first time around.
42% : Resisting a slide into fascism means building institutions powerful enough to counter Trump on his own terms.
28% : This dynamic will only get more true next year, since Donald Trump makes retaliatory decisions based not on the consensus advice of a meticulous team of professionals, but rather on the gossip he heard from a thrice-divorced Mazda dealership owner on the patio at Mar-a-Lago.

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