Traitor trump released another of his vomit inducing executive orders; this one aimed removing homeless people from American cities. Everyone should have known this was coming, Trump talked openly about removing unhoused and homeless people in LA into vague camps outside the city.
Even with the expanded funding and aggressive recruiting, ICE is currently to occupied with rounding-up grandmothers and innocent people for internment into the Concentration Camps in Florida. And local Police Departments aren't going to be able to accomplish this along with all their other day-to-day duties.
So, Trump is going to order the United States Military to accomplish this task. A Standing Army has always been a threat to peace and liberty. However, the deployment to Los Angeles of National Guardsmen and active-duty U.S. Marines was the 'Proof of Concept' Republicans needed to act upon Trump's Executive Order.
Let's be clear about couple of things about Trump's bullshit order; There is no chance anything good will come of this, Trump (and Republicans) don't want to set up a Federal assistance program to help the Unhoused. There will not be any vast array of the social services homeless people need; no counseling, no addiction therapy, no treatment for the mentally ill, no medications or god-forbid vaccines, no quality food program, no protection from rapacious predators. Fucking Republicans just slashed Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. Do you think they would ever give food, medicine and housing to "bums"? This is designed to appeal to mean and nasty white people who look down on and are angered by the sight of homeless people.
Homelessness has always been seen as a moral failing (laziness, drug use) by the unhoused and essentially been treated as a problem of aesthetics. City layouts and architecture was designed to discourage unhoused people from staying and the encourage the flow of bodies. Think about all those park benches you've seen which have humps or bars in the middle to stop anyone from laying down. Or the concrete ledges on streets angled, inclined or with impediments to accomplish the same effect.
Listen to Faux News broadcasts dehumanizing and belittling homeless people or Traitor trump's vicious slander of the homeless.
Trump himself has always had a Brutalist aesthetic towards Cities; he wants them gleaming and sterile, devoid of humanity, just stark edifices of steel, glass, and concrete spotless and static. Like the Nazi wonder city models he grew up idolizing before he embarked on his career as a Real Estate Tyrant
using eminent domain to kick little old ladies out of their homes so he can build his gaudy Casinos.
Now, Trump has the awesome power of the entire Government at his command and willing and complaint partners in the entire Republican Party, the 6 Supreme Injustices, and a servile Corporate Media who adores him.
Much of this has been accomplished by the Two-Santa Theory as elaborated by Them Hartmann, wherein Republicans spend outrageously thus raising the Debt, while also cutting taxes on the Rich. When Democrats regain the White House or Congress and propose a liberal agenda, Drunken Tom Boehner declares "We're Broke!" And Democrats are then called upon by the Corporate Media to be responsible and reach across the aisle and cut spending and reduce the debt.
But also by steadily lowering taxes on Corporations and the Ultra-Wealthy, Republicans have pushed the financial burden onto Middle America and the Working Class. Trump raised my taxes during his vile first term. This is all by design as people have felt the tax crunch they've responded with two-income households, longer working years, the so-called gig economy, get-rich quick schemes, and other methods to attempt to stay above water as Republicans try to drown them.
This coincides with the Republicans grand plan, from Ronnie Raygun through the current vicious BBB of eliminating the merger US social safety.
Most Americans, are a bad 6 months from being homeless themselves. Couple this with the emotional burden helping people takes to help people and you have the perfect Republican receipe for a Coarsened United States which doesn't want money to go towards the homeless at all. But, Republicans have been teaching Americans they can not rely on help from the Government and anyway Joe Biden or Barack Obama gave all your government money to Trans athletes or 'Mexicans' from Guatemala to replace you anyway.
Most white peoples response to homelessness is either revulsion or good intended but incorrect attempts at assistance. In both cases they invariably call 911 and expect the Police to handle the situation. I would like to believe most Americans, who have been taught for decades now that Police are "the helpers" are calling 911 because the believe and expect Police to have a huge cache of assistance they can provide and not because they demand the Police remove the homeless from their sight.
But, this is a Nation which has tried to elect Donold Traitor Trump to the Presidency 3 times. And now the Executive Branch has released another one of his highly propagandized Executive Orders which has been tailor-made to push the Fear & Anger buttons in the rightwing brain.
The coarsening of America has been a Republican project going on decades. While most of the worst aspects of the Right's Agenda have come about in the last 50 years when Republicans decided after Nixon's resignation they would never put the welfare of the Nation ahead of their Party, the Reactionary framework is a counter-revolution to the New Deal and has only intensified in response to each successive Democratic Administration.
Roughly, Republicans want Americans to know they have no friend in Government (large and small) and the Federal Government specifically will never help them. Look at the response of Homeland Security and FEMA under Kristi Noem, absolutely abandoned Texans in need, didn't bother to pick up phone cams, and declared their response the Greatest in American History.
The Republican Party response after the New Deal was to declare every Governmental function "Communism" or "Socialism" and to attack while out of office and to undermine it from within when in office. Republicans believe their are only two legitimate uses of the Federal Government; to quash domestic dissent at home with a robust Law Enforcement Apparatus and to use the vast Military-Industrial-Complex abroad to threaten and open up foreign markets for exploitation. Everything else is "Unconstitutional".
So, the coarsening of America continues. Trump is going to order the homeless rounded up and put into refugee camps. And the things that will happen will be a vicious evil stain on this Nation.